Attitudes Of Anesthesiology Residents And Faculty Members To wards Pain Management

There is a large armamentarium of pain-reducing interventions and analgesic choices available to anesthesiologists, but oligoanalgesia continues to be a large problem. We studied the attitudes of residents and faculty members of anesthesiology towards different domains of pain medicine. Methods: anonymous questionnaires were mailed to 68 professionals containing demographic and personal data plus 40 items in 10 domains: control, emotion, disability, solicitude, cure, opioids, harm, practice settings, training, and barriers. Internal consistency was 0.70 and the test-retest reliability was 0.80. Results: With 81% response rate, we observed desirable beliefs towards all domains except moderately undesirable beliefs towards the domain solicitude. Scores of residents and faculties were not significantly different. Conclusion: Continuing education programs on both the international guidelines, routine professional education, are needed to improve attitudes towards pain control