Culturally Relevant Pain Assessment and Management
Culturally Relevant Pain Assessment and Management is organized by MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care.
Release Date: June 1, 2020
Expiration Date: September 19, 2022 (for physicians and non-physicians); April 17, 2024 (for nurses); January 31, 2025 (for NYS Social Workers)
Purpose:
This webinar will discuss pain assessment in diverse patient populations with advanced illnesses. By 2050, 57% of the 420 million adults in the U.S. will include racial or ethnic minorities. Coping with a chronic progressive illness in a diverse population is a major challenge for individuals and families, the healthcare system, and society. Management of problems that occur in the context of advanced illness, especially pain and other symptoms, may be complicated by cultural and language barriers, distress, isolation, and family burden. As the U.S. population becomes increasingly diverse, high-quality palliative care must be able to address these differences. This webinar will highlight challenges in multicultural pain assessment and prepare attendees for addressing them. It will illustrate key concepts in transcultural pain assessment, including fatalism, stoicism, and beliefs about pain. Handouts will include culturally relevant validated tools for symptom assessment. Clinical cases will be discussed using examples from a recent study on cancer pain in Chinese immigrants in New York City's Chinatown.
Objectives:
• Examine barriers to multicultural pain assessment and management in palliative care
• Review clinical strategies for culturally relevant pain assessment and management in palliative care
• Present case examples of multicultural pain assessment and management for Chinese immigrants with advanced illness