ArticleJournal of pain research2018
Health education helps to relieve postembolization pain during hepatic arterial chemoembolization therapy.
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- Summary of the evidence of best practices for the prevention and treatment of embolism syndrome after TACE in primary liver cancer.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of pain management in perioperative period of TACE in patients with HCC: a single-center, parallel-group, randomized trial.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Article
- Strategies for Pain Management in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Undergoing Transarterial Chemoembolisation: A Scoping Review of Current Evidence.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- The Value of Web-Based Patient Education Materials on Transarterial Chemoembolization: Systematic Review.JMIR cancer · 2021Review
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Abstract
aimPsychological intervention has been proved a complementary approach to drug analgesia. Another study suggested that health knowledge is associated with psychological symptoms in patients with liver cancer. This study is conducted to assess whether improving the health education (HE) alleviates the postembolization pain during transarterial chemoembolization (TACE). MATERIALS AND
methodsOne hundred and fifteen patients, who required TACE for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and suffered postembolization pain, were randomized into control group (n=63) and HE group (n=52). The health knowledge was scaled with the health knowledge questionnaire (HKQ). The postembolization pain was scored using a 0-10 numeric rating scale (NRS-10) after arterial embolization in both groups.
resultsThere were no statistical differences between male and female in all HKQ scores (
conclusionImproving the HE among HCC patients before TACE is beneficial for the pain relief during interventional procedure.
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