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Lesson 9 Discussion - Non-pharmacological Pain Management

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Lesson 9 Discussion - Non-pharmacological Pain Management

Allen et al. (2020) systematic review involve factors of interest which are as follows:

psychosocial/emotional distress, family characteristics, and coping and psychological

interventions/ treatments on CPSP in children undergoing osteosarcoma in surgery. Specific: The

objectives are specific, namely concerning identifying the best part of these factors and

interventions in the management of CPSP. To apply the search strategy, it is sequential and in an

attempt to find studies related to the specific topic, it selects them. The keywords utilized in the

studies included chronic pain, psychological intervention, osteosarcoma, and pediatric and were

searched in Google Scholar, Pub Med, Psyc INFO, and Cochrane Library. The manuscripts

included focused on the physical experiences of children and the osteosarcoma patients with

CPSP and related to the psychosocial aspects or psychological intervention. The exclusion

criteria on their part were papers that did not include patients with osteosarcoma, or those who

were not suffering from CPSP or psychosocial aspects of the disease in some way. A few papers

made somewhat mixed concerning the design of the research studies and the interventions

investigated; nonetheless, more general yet coherence themes facilitated the inclusion of the

studies into a broad meta-synthesis. The studies that have been employed to explore the validity

of the presented findings were also characterized, and the impact of corresponding bias was

evaluated. It is important to describe the approach that has been employed for dealing with the

matter of the strength and quality of evidence and the grading of the level of evidence. In total,

the conclusions made by Allen et al. (2020) are reasonable, consistent with the results presented,

and concern the improvement of psychosocial characteristics and psychological interventions in

children with osteosarcoma.

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References

Allen, J. M., Niel, K., Guo, A., Su, Y., Zhang, H., & Anghelescu, D. L. (2020). Psychosocial

Factors and Psychological Interventions: Implications for Chronic Post-Surgical Pain in

Pediatric Patients with Osteosarcoma. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical

Settings, 28(3), 468–476. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10880-020-09748-y