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… Click to show full 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 careprovided-related barriers, and institutional-related barriers. Patient-related barriers were reluctant to reportpain, fear from tolerance, addiction, and side effect, and culture. This review provides summary data aboutthe patient-barriers to effective cancer pain control.
               
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