Abstract:

The study is a descriptive study to investigate the postoperative pain level, the factors affecting the pain, and satisfaction with pain management in the knee prosthesis surgery.The research community comprised all the knee prothesis applied individuals between January and December, 2016, the sampling included of 60 patients who fulfilled the study criteria. Data were collected with the PersonalCharacrestics Form, Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) and Visual Analog Scale (VAS). Data evaluation was done with Percentage, mean, Kolmogorov-Smirnov,Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis test. It was found that 75% of the patients were in the 50-70 age range and 81% were women. The most severe pain score average of the patients was 5.32±1.21, the mildest pain score is 1.85±1.28, mean pain score average 3.35±0.91, the mean pain score during the measurement was 1.62±1.1. It was determined that the patients who use analgesics daily in their daily lives have higher pain levels than those who do not. After analgesic administration, 36.7% of patients recovered completely from pain, and 18.3% of patients recovered from 90%. It was viewed that the patients were most affected by walking, emotional status and general activity due to pain. The average satisfaction with pain management score of the patients was 6.25.A meaningful relationship was found between the mildest pain scores and satisfaction scores of the patients. It was determined that as the mildest pain score decreased, satisfaction with pain management increased. It was found that other independent variables did not affect the satisfaction score.

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