Objective To identify baseline factors associated with outcomes from an inpatient multidisciplinary pain management program (PMP) located in a bicultural area of Aotearoa New Zealand. Methods A prospective cohort study was undertaken involving 164 people with chronic pain who attended the PMP. Demographic, clinical, and psychosocial measures were obtained at baseline, whereas clinical and psychosocial outcome measures were also obtained at program discharge and 3-month follow up (N = 100).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To explore if human resource practices are the key to manage job burnout in nurses.
Objective: To determine if human resource practices provide more meaningful work to nurses, subsequently leading to enhanced work-life balance and lower job burnout (emotional exhaustion and cynicism).
Background: Job burnout is a global phenomenon, particularly relevant in the nursing profession due to pressures within the health sector.
Objective There is little information on how multidisciplinary pain management programs (MPMPs), the gold-standard treatment for people with chronic non-cancer pain, should be structured or delivered. This study compared outcomes from a 3-week in-patient MPMP between those who attended a group-based program that included 8 h of individual therapy each week and those who attended when the amount of individual therapy had been halved. Methods Participants were patients attending an MPMP with a large component of individual sessions (n = 112; Standard) and patients attending the same MPMP after it switched to predominantly group-based sessions (n = 117; Revised).
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