Surgical Nurses' Pain Management Self-Efficacy and Patients' Postoperative Pain Outcomes

ConditionPostoperative Pain

Trial statusNot yet recruiting

Trial phaseNot listed

Trial typeObservational

Biological sexAll

Age18+

SponsorVolkan Gokmen

About this trial

This study examines whether surgical nurses' confidence in managing patients' pain (pain management self-efficacy) is related to how well their patients' pain is managed after surgery. Nurses working in general surgery clinics will complete a questionnaire about their own pain management self-efficacy, and the surgical patients under their care will complete a separate questionnaire about their postoperative pain outcomes. Each patient's responses will be linked to the nurse who cared for them, creating nurse-patient pairs, in order to explore how nurse-level factors relate to patient-level pain outcomes. This is an observational study: no treatment, medication, or intervention is provided or tested; participants only complete questionnaires.

Eligibility criteria

This trial accepts healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

Currently employed as a registered nurse

Working in the general surgery clinic where the study is conducted

Actively involved in postoperative patient care

Employed in the relevant clinic for at least 3 months

Disqualifiers

On extended leave or medical report during the data collection period, resulting in no active clinical care

Does not complete the data collection form during the study period

Followed in the intensive care unit

Impaired consciousness that prevents assessment

Trial population

Surgical nurses providing postoperative care in the general surgery clinics of two training and research hospitals in Turkey, together with the adult surgical patients under their care during the first 24 postoperative hours, forming linked nurse-patient dyads.

Trial design

Design model

Cohort

Time perspective

Cross-sectional

Treatments tested in this trial

Pain Management Self-Efficacy and Postoperative Pain Outcome Assessment
Other intervention
No therapeutic, experimental, or clinical intervention was administered; this is a purely observational, questionnaire-based study. Nurses' pain management self-efficacy was assessed once using the Pain Management Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PMSEQ, Turkish version). Patients' postoperative pain outcomes were assessed once, within the first 24 postoperative hours, using the Revised American Pain Society Patient Outcome Questionnaire, Turkish version (APS-POQ-R-TR). Usual clinical care and pain management practices were not modified in any way.

Treatment groups

340 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Surgical Nurses1 intervention

Group B: Surgical Patients1 intervention

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Postoperative Pain Outcomes (Patients)

Patient-reported postoperative pain outcomes measured with the Revised American Pain Society Patient Outcome Questionnaire (APS-POQ-R), including pain severity/intensity, pain interference with activity and sleep, and satisfaction with pain management. Each domain is rated on a 0-10 numeric rating scale; higher scores indicate worse outcomes for the pain severity/intensity and interference-with-activity/sleep domains, and higher scores indicate better outcomes (greater satisfaction) for the satisfaction-with-pain-management domain.

Time frame

Within 24-48 hours after surgery, prior to hospital discharge

Secondary outcomes

Nurses' Pain Management Self-Efficacy

Nurses' pain management self-efficacy measured with the Pain Management Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PMSEQ), reflecting nurses' confidence in their ability to assess, plan, and implement effective postoperative pain management for their patients. The PMSEQ comprises 21 items rated on a 6-point scale (0 = not confident at all to 5 = completely confident), yielding a total score range of 0-105; higher scores indicate greater pain management self-efficacy (a better outcome).

Time frame

Measured once, at the time of study enrollment

Sponsors and contacts

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Volkan Gokmen

Lead sponsor

Agri Ibrahim Cecen University

Sponsor institution

Eastern Mediterranean University

Collaborator

Atlas University