A Model for Pain Self-Management of Patients with Haemophilia: Peer Education

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10.2991/mdhss-13.2013.48How to use a DOI?

Keywords

haemophilia, chronic pain, pain self-management, peer education model

Abstract

Hemophilia is a lifelong bleeding disorder with no cure. The pain, discomfort and risks that accompany hemophilia can be physically and emotionally stressful. Effective pain management is extremely important for improvement quality of life among patients with haemophi¬lia. While some observational studies show a lack of readi¬ness to change and a low adherence to recommended treatments in patients with haemophilia. The study found that a positive attitude and adherence can be en-hanced if people have the opportunity to interact with peers who model and reinforce adherent behaviors. This paper reviewed current pain management strategies for patients with hemophilia and focus on peer education practical examples which have been used in many areas of health and to find peer education models are well established as a means of self-management education to encourage the patients enhance the learning of pain self-manage-ment skills and improve emotional development. Future research in pain self-management of patients with haemophilia using peer education as a strategy should properly designed RCTs to dem-onstrate the efficacy of this intervention.

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© 2013, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Hua Zhao
AU  - Yulin Guo
AU  - Airong Zhang
AU  - Ruihong Wu
AU  - Ruijuan Zhang
AU  - Linhua Yang
AU  - Zhi-Guang Duan
PY  - 2013/12
DA  - 2013/12
TI  - A Model for Pain Self-Management of Patients with Haemophilia: Peer Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on the Modern Development of Humanities and Social Science
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 186
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SN  - 1951-6851
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