The influence of an informational video for mastectomy patients: a study on pain

• Autor(a) principal: H. A. de Medeiros, Roberto
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: L. T. Nunes, Maria, Schermann, Lígia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Clinical and Biomedical Research
• Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/hcpa/article/view/125726
• topic: Neoplasias mamárias/psicologia; mastectomia; dor; vídeos educativos; assistência paliativa; Breast neoplasm/psychology; mastectomy; pain; informational videos; palliative care

OBJECTIVE: Pain is a high incidence symptom in cancer patients. In cases of breast cancer, the post mastectomy and post axillary curettage pain syndromes present the characteristic of neural pain and can occur in 10% of patients shortly after surgery. This paper presents the preliminary results of an ongoing research aimed at investigating the possible effects of a modern procedure of information, which used in the evaluation of perception of pain in mastectomy patients at the Mastectomy Center of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, southern Brazil. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A sample of 22 patients was studied according to the classical experimental design with two groups. An informational video was shown to the  experimental group in the pre-surgery period. Both groups were evaluated using the McGill Pain Questionnaire and the Visual Analogue Scale pain score. RESULTS: Results indicated a tendency to reports of more post-surgical pain in the control group in both tests. In some of the subscales of the McGill Questionnaire there were significantly higher scores of post-surgical pain in the control group. CONCLUSIONS: Our findings seem to indicate the benefits of using informational videos with the objective of improving the well-being of patients. However, further studies should be carried out with larger population samples in order to better evaluate the trends observed in this study