Study Status: RECRUITING
Recruit Status: RECRUITING
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Influence of the Communication Between Nursing Staff and Patients on the Analgesic Response Following Caesarean Section
Brief Summary:
Effective management of postoperative pain is a priority for women undergoing cesarean delivery.
Despite availability of modern analgesics, postoperative pain management remains a challenge.
One opportunity to enhance the analgesic effect of the pharmacological treatments given to people suffering from pain (and not just pain) is through increasing the expectations for pain relief following treatment.
Although much knowledge has been accumulated about the significant effect of expectations on pain, virtually all evidence are based on experimental studies carried out in laboratory settings, and there is a need to investigate how this knowledge could translated into improved clinical care.
The aim of the current study is to examine whether the communication style between the nursing staff and the patient during analgesic administration will affect the results of pain relief treatment in the mother-newborn ward after cesarean section.
As another goal, the study will examine whether relevant patient's characteristics will predict the effectiveness of the treatment.