Table 4.

Attitudes of Respondents Toward POP Management (n = 168).

Interventions/measures	Agree		Don't know		Disagree
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%	Mean	SD
Your cultural background affects your nursing care of a patient's report of pain.	45	26.8	6	3.6	117	69.6	1.57	0.542
Your patient should experience discomfort prior to giving the next dose of pain medications.	31	18.5	9	5.4	128	76.1	1.42	0.639
Your visual assessment of the patient reporting pain influences your response and treatment of POP.	127	75.6	2	1.2	39	23.2	2.52	0.883
The patient who frequently requests pain medication influences your response time to analgesic administration.	74	44.0	2	1.2	92	54.8	1.89	0.500
You anticipate pain in all surgical procedures before you assess and treat pain in a patient.	142	84.5	4	2.4	22	13.1	2.71	0.882
Using pain measurement instruments is integral in postoperative pain management.	138	82.2	15	8.9	15	8.9	2.73	0.351
Patients should be encouraged to endure as much pain as possible before using an opioid.	56	33.3	10	6.0	102	60.7	1.73	0.456
A patient's spiritual beliefs may lead them to think pain and suffering are necessary.	81	48.2	22	13.1	65	38.7	2.10	0.567
Analgesic opioids should not be administered to patients with a history of substance abuse.	87	51.8	19	11.3	62	36.9	2.15	0.351
It is a patient's right to expect total postoperative pain relief as a consequence of treatment.	125	75.6	8	4.8	33	19.6	2.52	0.988
Morphine is a very strong drug. POP patients would be content with just one dose.	63	37.5	21	12.5	84	50.0	1.88	0.778
The type of surgery done affects your response to pain management.	120	71.4	3	1.8	45	26.8	2.45	0.742
Lack of pain expression does not mean lack of pain.	141	83.9	8	4.8	19	11.3	2.73	0.983
Effective analgesia is an essential part of postoperative management	155	92.2	5	3.0	8	4.8	2.88	0.992

POP = postoperative pain.