Table 4.

Patient Pain Knowledge Tool

Knowledge Item	Mean (SD)
Pain can be divided into two types: acute and chronic	0.87 (0.34)
The most common cause of pain is cancer	0.45 (0.50)
Taking opioids will always leads to addiction	0.53 (0.51)
The side effects that pain medications cause can be prevented or treated	0.66 (0.48)
It is not important for doctors and nurses to know about your pain	0.79 (0.41)
A pain scale is used to describe how much pain you are feeling	0.95 (0.27)
Cancer pain can be treated only with medicines and not by using other treatments such as chemotherapy, radiation, surgery	0.68 (0.47)
Non-opioid medicines such as Tylenol and ibuprofen are used for severe pain only	0.79 (0.41)
Opioid medicines are divided by how quickly they begin to work and how long they work	0.76 (0.43)
One of the most common side effect of taking morphine is constipation	0.68 (0.47)
Drinking more fluids, eating more fiber foods, and some mild exercise along with some laxatives are the best ways to prevent constipation	1.0 (0.00)
Other common side effects of pain medicine include nausea and some confusion	0.84 (0.37)
A need to increase the dose of your pain medicine is a sign of addiction	0.61 (0.50)
You can stop your pain medications suddenly without worries about side effects	0.63 (0.49)
Around-the-clock dosing of pain medicine means that the medicine will be given on a regular basis, whether you are in pain or not	0.74 (0.45)
OVERALL SCORE	0.73 (0.13)