Chronic pain management for older adults in ambulatory care : Results of a randomized pragmatic trial in Berlin, Germany.

• Tác giả: Dagmar Dräger, Magdalena Glawe, Daniela Koios, Reinhold Kreutz, Ronny Kuhnert, Christina Rank, Thomas Günther Riemer, Arlett Wenzel
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 532.53 Flow over and around obstacles
• Thông tin xuất bản: Germany : Zeitschrift fur Gerontologie und Geriatrie , 2025
• Bộ sưu tập: NCBI
• ID: 732714
• Chủ đề: 1. Chronic; 2. Pain; 3. Management

Tóm tắt

Chronic pain is a major health challenge in older populations and approaches to improve ambulatory care are urgently needed. We conducted a pragmatic trial to test whether staff-directed interventions can improve chronic pain management in older community-dwelling adults and thereby improve their pain situation. Participants of 22 ambulatory nursing services (clusters) were allocated to 3 study arms: I1 (individual intervention with recommendations for each participant's physician and a newly trained pain nurse), I2 (digital training offered for participants' physicians and nursing staff) and CG (control group). Survey-based face to face interviews were held at the participants' homes. Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, and χ