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9 Factors Affecting Pain
Pain is the most common reason a person is seeking medical assistance. Pain occurs with the disease process, diagnostic examination, and treatment process. Pain is very annoying and troublesome for people. Nurses can not see and feel the pain experienced by the client because pain is subjective (between one individual to another individual is different in addressing the pain).
Nurses provide nursing care to clients in various situations and circumstances, which provide interventions to improve comfort. According to some nursing theories, comfort is the need of the client base that is the purpose of nursing care delivery. The statement was supported by Kolcaba, who said that comfort is a state of fulfillment of basic human needs.
1. Age
Elderly: that pain is something they should receive, sometimes deny, that the pain will be felt due to fear of concentration that is not in the know.
Children: difficulty understanding the pain, verbalizing and expressing the pain.
2. Types of abnormalities
Men and women did not differ significantly in responding to pain.
3. Culture
Culture affects the way individuals cope with pain. A person will learn what is acceptable and expected by their culture and then react accordingly to cultural guidance.
4. The meaning of pain
Meaning the pain would affect the experience of pain and how to adapt to pain. Pregnant women/childbirth will have different perceptions from women who received a blow from which the husband was having an affair.
5. Attention
Someone who focuses on pain can affect the perception of pain. Increased attention to pain will increase the pain.
6. Anxiety
Pain and anxiety are associated on a reciprocal basis. Asietas can increase the pain.
7. Fatigue
Cause the sensation of pain intensified and lower coping abilities.
8. Previous experience.
Success in overcoming never-occurring pain will affect a person’s readiness to face the same pain today.
9. Family and social support
Pain and discomfort, in general, will always be there, but the support of significant others loved will help minimize the readiness and fear.
