Lecture 4 Flashcards
Understand that pain is a what experience, with important what components?
- Understand that pain is a subjective experience with important affective, cognitive, and behavioral as well as sensory components
- Pain measurement is fundamentally inferential; thus, the objective is to evaluate and relieve the subjective experience. How can this be accomplished?
o This can be accomplished only through the interpretation of a variety of verbal (self-report) and nonverbal behaviors, including treatment-related behaviors
These must be considered in a context of communication influences as well as physiological differences
Distinguish between pain as a subjective experience:
pain behavior as a pattern of audible or observable actions (e.g., posture, facial expression, verbalizations, etc.); and physical, emotional, and disability functioning
- Recognize fundamental individual differences in
affective, cognitive, and behavioral response to pain and understand their interactions with physiology
- Recognize the substantial variability in response to actual tissue damage or potential tissue damage as
reflected in the modest correlations among physical damage, pain, and disability for acute, progressive, and chronic pain
- Understand the basic neurochemical and neurologic mechanisms through which
emotion, cognition, and behavior influence each other and are influenced by physiology
There are what variations in pain experience and expression and in health-care seeking and treatment
Cultural, environmental, and racial variations
- Racial, cultural, and gender differences in pain expression and treatment may reflect differences in health care professionals’
responses and there are highly criticized findings about assessment and treatment of pain as relates to race/ ethnicity.
Pain bx and complaints are best understood in the context of
of social transactions among the individual, spouse, employers, and health professionals and in the context of community, governmental, or legal procedures
