Abstract: This paper reports on the concept analysis of cancer pain. Pain negatively affects cancer patients and their families. It serves a role in understanding and researching how cancer pain can be addressed to reduce the stress and to improve their quality of life, functional status, and comfort level.
Methods: The method used is the Walker and Avant (1995) concept analysis. An extensive literature review identified a need to investigate further the relationship between cancer pain and the quality of life this population faces and deals with at a high prominence. The goal of the literature review is to identify the antecedents, attributes, and consequences of cancer pain and how this is related to individual’s quality of life, functional status, and comfort. Concept Analysis is looking to clarify the meaning of pain and to define attributes. This method is easy to master, provides clarity and extensive understanding of what cancer pain concept means. According to Walker and Avant (2005), the concept analysis follows the steps of selecting the concept, determine the aims/purpose of the concept analysis, identify the use, define the attributes, model identification of a model case, and summarizing the conclusion (Walker & Avant, 2005, p. 65).
Results: The attributes of a patient cancer with pain includes domineering force (improved/maintained), an unkind feeling of aching (improved/maintained), personal experience of fear (improved/maintained), patient self-efficacy (improved/maintained), patients comfort status (improved/maintained), and patient quality of life status (improved/sustained).
Keywords: cancer, pain, concept analysis, quality of life, functional status, comfort, nursing.
Title: Cancer Pain: A Concept Analysis
Author: Carmen Sigley
International Journal of Healthcare Sciences
ISSN 2348-5728 (Online)
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