Strategies for Coping with Pain in Chronic Sciatica in Patients Treated in Neurological Outpatient Clinic
| Main Authors: | Bąk, Ewelina, Wójtowicz, Iga, Nowak-Kapusta, Zofia |
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| Format: | Article |
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, 2018
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https://zenodo.org/record/1295581 |
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- Bąk Ewelina, Wójtowicz Iga, Nowak-Kapusta Zofia. Strategies for Coping with Pain in Chronic Sciatica in Patients Treated in Neurological Outpatient Clinic. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2018;8(7):173-188. eISNN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1295581 http://ojs.ukw.edu.pl/index.php/johs/article/view/5592 The journal has had 7 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. Part b item 1223 (26/01/2017). 1223 Journal of Education, Health and Sport eissn 2391-8306 7 © The Authors 2018; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 01.06.2018. Revised: 08.06.2018. Accepted: 23.06.2018. Strategies for Coping with Pain in Chronic Sciatica in Patients Treated in Neurological Outpatient Clinic Ewelina Bąk1, Iga Wójtowicz2, Zofia Nowak-Kapusta3 1 University of Bielsko-Biała, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences 2 Beskidy Medical Center in Bielsko-Biała 3Department of Health Promotion and Community Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Silesia Katowice Summary Introduction: Back pain is one of the most common causes of deterioration of the psychophysical condition in people. The pain becomes a source of stress for patients and that is why they activate strategies to cope with it. These are the behaviours that patients undertake independently in difficult situations. The aim of this paper was to learn strategies for coping with sciatic pain using the example of patients of the Neurological Outpatient Clinic. Materials and methods: The research was carried out by means of diagnostic survey. The research tools were as follows: own questionnaire, Coping with Pain Strategy questionnaire. The research was carried out among patients of the Outpatient Neurological Clinic BCO of the City Hospital named after John Paul II in Bielsko-Biała in the period from March to September 2017. Before the beginning of the study, the consent of the director of the BCO Municipal Hospital named after John Paul II in Bielsko-Biała was obtained to carry out the research. Findings: The strategies of coping with pain which the respondents chose most frequently were increased behavioural activity, declared coping and diverting attention, the patients were least likely to choose the catastrophizing strategy, re-evaluating pain and ignoring the sensations. Conclusions: Among the strategies for coping with pain in patients with sciatica, the behavioural strategy was dominant, i.e. increased behavioural activity, then the respondents chose the cognitive techniques: declared coping and diverting attention. The type of strategies implemented was influenced by: the time elapsed from the diagnosis of sciatica, the severity of pain and sex of the patient. Key words: chronic sciatica, strategies for coping with pain, chronic disease.