Table 2.

Comfort level with pain management in sickle cell disease (N=105); Sickle Cell Disease Implementation Consortium, USA, 2021

	Frequency n (%)
Managing acute pain episodes
Very uncomfortable	9 (9.2)
Somewhat uncomfortable	10 (10.2)
Neither comfortable or uncomfortable	3 (3.1)
Somewhat comfortable	30 (30.6)
Very comfortable	45 (45.9)
Don’t know/prefer not to respond	1 (1.0)
(7 missing)
Managing chronic pain
Very uncomfortable	7 (7.4)
Somewhat uncomfortable	20 (21.3)
Neither comfortable or uncomfortable	5 (5.3)
Somewhat comfortable	44 (46.8)
Very comfortable	15 (16.0)
Don’t know/prefer not to respond	3 (3.2)
(11 missing)
Prescribe opioids
Yes	73 (73.7)
No	23 (23.2)
Don’t know/prefer not to respond	3 (3.0)
(6 missing)