Self-care experience of adult patients with chronic pain : -A descriptive review

Abstract: Background: Patients with chronic diseases were troubled by diseases for a long time, not only physically but also psychologically and in many aspects. More and more people realized that self-care play a very important role in patients with chronic diseases. Studying the experience of adult patients with chronic disease can help understand the impact of chronic disease on patients and provide reference for patients with chronic pain to better self-care.Aim: To describe the self-care experience of adult patients with chronic pain.3Methods: Through the search term “Chronic pain”, “self-care”, “self-management”, 10 qualitative articles related to self care of adult patients with chronic pain.Results: This study mainly focused on the self-care experience of adult patients with chronic pain. The results can be divided into six categories: (1) Negative experiences and barriers in finding self-care ways; (2) Negative experiences when performing self-care; (3) Negative experiences after self-care; (4) Positive experiences in finding self-care ways; (5) Positive experience and effective self-care measures in the process of self-care; (6) Positive experiences after self-care.Conclusions: Chronic pain to the patient's life and mental state are brought negative influence, many patients self care to relieve the pain, some patients think own self care have negative aspects, but some patients think the effective self-management improved their quality of life, also Shared their effective self nursing experience. Nurses need to provide scientific and effective self-care guidance to adult patients with chronic pain.Keywords: Experience, Self-care，Self-management，Chronic pain.