Search for: [Abstract = "t previous palliative treatment before hospitalization conditioned pain intensity but only in CHN group and only on the day of admission to the inpatient care unit. In the first stage of the treatment, the persons who had been under palliative care before reported bigger intensity of pain. Pain intensity also correlated with patients’ sex and age. The older the patients with the CHN group were, the lower the pain intensity was, whereas in patients in the CHNN group the pain was increasing. The studied women in both groups assessed their level of pain intensity as higher in comparison with the pain of the researched men. The author’s own study showed that there is a substantial dependency between physical and mental suffering. In the CHN group the pain, at least in one measurement, correlated positively with despondency, drowsiness, anxiety and dyspnoea, and in the CHNN group with anxiety, appetite, activity and nausea. Patients in the CHN group who developed a decubitus ulcer had significantly higher pain severity at the third examination stage than those without decubitus ulcers. In the CHN group, furthermore, significant relationships were found between pain severity and pain location\: if the pain was localised within the neoplastic area, in all three measurements patients rated the severity of their pain as higher compared to those whose pain was localised elsewhere. In con"]

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