Thai Buddhism-Based Mindfulness for Pain Management in Thai Outpatients with Cancer: A Pilot Study.

Objective: This study aimed to evaluate Thai Buddhism-based Mindfulness (TBbM) feasibility based on recruitment and retention rates and to obtain preliminary data regarding changes (effect sizes) in pain severity and other outcomes when comparing control to intervention participants following TBbM use.

Methods: A randomized controlled trial was conducted in the Outpatient Department at Sawanpracharak Hospital, Thailand, from April 2018 to February 2019. Seventeen participants completed the pretest and posttest.

Pain Quality by Location in Outpatients with Cancer.

Background: The McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) pain quality descriptors have been analyzed to characterize the sensory, affective, and evaluative domains of pain, but have not been differentiated by pain location.

Aim: To examine MPQ pain quality descriptors by pain location in outpatients with lung or prostate cancer.

Design: Cross sectional.

A Systematic Review: Mindfulness Intervention for Cancer-Related Pain.

Moderate-to-severe pain is a common problem experienced by patients with cancer. Although analgesic drugs are effective, adverse side effects are common and some analgesic drugs are addictive. Nonpharmacological treatment may be a way to treat cancer pain without causing negative side effects.

The McGill Pain Questionnaire as a multidimensional measure in people with cancer: an integrative review.

First published in 1975, the McGill Pain Questionnaire (MPQ) is an often-cited pain measure, but there have been no systematic reviews of the MPQ in cancer populations. Our objective was to evaluate the MPQ as a multidimensional measure of pain in people with cancer. A systematic search of research that used the MPQ in adults with cancer and published in English from 1975 to 2009 was conducted.

Differences in pain location, intensity, and quality by pain pattern in outpatients with cancer.

Background: Pain pattern represents how the individual's pain changes temporally with activities or other factors, but researchers have studied less the pattern of pain than its location, intensity, and quality parameters.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore differences in pain location, intensity, and quality by pattern groups in outpatients with cancer.

Method: We conducted a comparative, secondary data analysis of data collected from 1994 to 2007.