Patient-related Barriers to Pain Management among Cancer Patients

Abstract

Recently, despite the development of cancer pain treatment, many cancer patients still suffer from pain.
This review aimed to explore the patients-related barriers to pain management among cancer patients.
The electronic searching was conducted in a different database: Google Scholar, CINAHL and PubMed.
According to previous studies barriers can classified into patients/family- related barriers, health care
provided-related barriers, and institutional-related barriers. Patient-related barriers were reluctant to report
pain, fear from tolerance, addiction, and side effect, and culture. This review provides summary data about
the patient-barriers to effective cancer pain control.