A nurse who provides care in a large, inner-city hospital comes into contact with older adults from a wide variety of cultural groups. How is culture most likely to influence the assessment and management of pain?
A) Cultural differences affect the intensity of pain.
B) Culture can dictate the appropriate expression of pain.
C) Culture should determine the choice of analgesia when treating pain.
D) Culture is unrelated to pain because pain is a physiological, rather than psychosocial, phenomenon.
Ans: B
The most salient effect of culture on pain management involves the expression of pain. Culture can be a relevant influence on the subjective sensation of pain and clinicians' choice of analgesia, but this is typically less pronounced than the effect of culture on the expression of pain.
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