| Summary: | 碩士 === 國防醫學院 === 護理研究所 === 93 === The purpose of this study was explore the effects of multi-media interventions on cancer patient’s pain, believe of pain treatment, and quality of life. In hospice ward for the convenience of sampling, sixty-seven patients were collected and divided into the experimental group and contrast group, thirty-seven patients and thirty patients individually. The study had five stages. First stage was to understand the cancer patients’ pain and make sure their need in health education. Second stage was to design and complete the health education protocol cancer patient with pain. Third stage was to perform the intervention of the health education protocol. Fourth stage was to perform the intervention of the health education protocol. Final stage was the post-test after performing the health education protocol everyday until one week.
The results of the study indicated that two groups had no difference in demographic data. There were significant difference between the experimental group and control group in the scales of the Belief Pain Inventory-Chinese version(BPI-C), and World Health Organization Quality of Life(WHOQOL)(p>.05) in the pretest. There was no significant difference between two groups in Pain Opioid Analgesics Belief Scale-Cancer(POABS-CA) (p>.05) in the pretest. The result show the significant differences in experimental group in the pain degree, belief of pain treatment between the every post-test (p<.05). But the quality of life did have a significant difference between the fourth to seventh post-test (p<.05).
The protocol of health education for cancer patients with pain was performed by multidimensional teaching methods in combining the individual health education, a multi-media CD-ROM, and discussion to directly promote patients’ knowledge related cancer pain and maintain the effect of the health education. In addition, it also indirectly decrease patients’ pain and improved cancer patients’ belief of pain treatment and quality of life. This study will be a helpful reference to develop a local health education protocol in the future.
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