| Abstract [eng] |
SUMMARY Suffering the pain, people feel an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience, associated with actual or potential tissue damage. When the pain is untreated or treated inefficiently, the acute pain progress into the chronic pain which lasts for three or more months and becomes non adaptive, requiring for major psychological intervention. Trying to evaluate or alleviate the pain it is necessary to know how people understand the pain (cognitive factor – pain conception), as this subjective opinion is related with the selection of pain relief methods. There are two methods how to treat the chronic pain and they are as follows: traditional or conventional ones and alternative, but there is no common agreement how they are chosen, selected. So the aim of this paper was to clarify the pain conception of the chronic pain patients and to evaluate the relationship between the existing pain conception and chosen pain treatment methods. Used measures are: Beliefs about Pain Control Questionnaire, List of pain treatment methods, semi-structured interview to evaluate the pain conception. Data are analysed following the content analysis and on the basis of SPPS. The research results show, that people beliefs are important in analysing the treatment results, considering the potential pain reason (s), choosing the acceptable pain strategies and pain control position or being everyday with their pain. The pain conception of chronic pain patients is highly related with the chosen pain treatment method, that is, the selection of certain method is directly related with the belief about pain reason, about the pain coping and used pain method The direct relationship between the chosen pain alleviation methods and expectation, related with the used pain alleviation methods, is not found. In conclusion, people use both pain treatment methods just in different occasions. |
