Pain in Dementia Patients: A Systematic Literature Review

Running head: PAIN IN DEMENTIA PATIENTS
Pain in Dementia Patients
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Introduction
The following assessment aimed to construct a literature review by using a systematic
literature review approach. The main research question that will be assessed in this review
comprises “Do the elderly diagnosed with dementia experience pain?”. For addressing this
research question initially a literature search will be conducted and the search strategy is
presented in a tabular format. This table will be followed by table 2 that contains the
summary of the articles. At the end, the key findings are discussed in a brief manner.
Search Strategy
Key words
Keyword 1: Dementia OR pain in adults OR analgesics used by elderly patients, Alzheimer
or cognitive impairment or memory loss
AND
Keyword 2: Aged care facilities OR Nursing home residents OR Disturbances in mental
process regarding reasoning, thinking abilities
AND
Keyword 3: Palliative care patients OR Challenges regarding pain management in elderly,
joint pain AND prevalence or incidence or epidemiology or frequency or occurrence OR joint
pain
AND
Keyword 4: Pharmacological intervention OR non- pharmacological intervention for pain
management

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Inclusion Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
Year of publication: 2013 to 2018
Type of article: Only Primary and secondary
research articles will be used for the
systematic review
Type: Peer reviewed
Language: English
Exclusion Criteria
Exclusion Criteria
Year of publication: Before 2013
Article type: Frey literatures and case
studies
Type: Non-peer reviewed
Other than English
Databases used for article search
1. CINHAL
2. PubMed
3. MedLine
4. PsycInfo
5. Crochane

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Flow Chart of Literature Search
Additional records identified
through other sources
(n = 0 )
Records identified through
database searching
(n = 1039 )
Records after duplicates removed
(n = 919 )
Records excluded
(n = 767 )
Records screened
(n = 919 )
Full-text articles assessed
for eligibility
(n = 152 )
Full-text articles assessed for
eligibility
(n = 147 ) due to following
reasons-
 Not being a original
research paper
 Not dealing with
primary dementing
illnesses (e.g.,
demena due to HIV,
etc.)
 Not English language
 Not
investigating/definin
g pain treatment
procedures.
Studies included in the
systematic Review
(n = 5 )