Cultural Aspects in Pain Management

Cultural and ethnic aspects play vital roles in managing pain and analgesia. Hispanic patients go through pain due to adverse cultural and ethnic perceptions, expectations, and dynamics. However, Hispanic populations express pain differently and adversely. More so, people from minority Hispanic communities are regarded as poor with regards to pain management. They also experience reduced prescriptions with regards to analgesia based on the doses of pain administered (Larry, 2012). This thesis will focus on pain management while discussing cultural and ethnic roles on pain perceptions, expectations, dynamics and management. The framework will consist of the patients and a team of healthcare givers. For the purpose of this article, Bates Bio-Cultural Model of pain will be utilized. It integrates social learning theory and physiologic explanations on pain development, interpretation and management (Epps ET AL., 2008).Cultural Aspects in Pain Management