Background & Aims

The previous research findings reported that personal and environmental factors negatively affect Southeast Asian Canadians (Korean,Chinese, Filipinos, Indians) and immigrants’ health access behaviour. The clients’ disbelief, low health literacy, and self-denial of their health care needs are barriers to their psychosocial pain care service access; while psychosocial pain care services in the government health system are not feasible to all; ethnic populations required culturally relevant care services and interpreter service needs that were not in place. Today, the inaccessibility of psychosocial pain care services remains in sight as community members reported.The current review studies aim to gather the current research-based evidence on psychosocial pain care services to understand the ethnic groups’ access conditions. The results of the review studies aim to use for informed practice to facilitate the care access by the ethnic minorities.

Methods

The literature reviews was conducted. Articles were selected from CIINAH, PubMed, Web of Sciences, PsycINFO databases, and manual search from January 1999 to December 2023.The search articles were limited to English versions.The inclusion criteria was Southeast Asian Canadians born in Canada and immigrants who aged 18 and above. The Southeast Asian Canadians include Korean, Chinese, Filipinos and Southeast Indians. who experienced psychosocial pain due to variously social and chronic health reasons (except for mental problems). The exclusion criteria included non-Southeast Asian Canadian born in Canada, non-English literatures, and with dx of mental problems. The evidence appraisal followed the principles of the Hierarchical system of classifying the levels of evidence and the Cochrane Library Checklist (Burns et al., 2011).There were only sixteen out of 79 articles included for further in-depth studies.The included and relevant research-evidenced information is limited and exhausted.

Results

The research study outcomes mentioned Korean participants’ endurance of chronic pain, language difficulties, and psychosocial pain symptoms. Health and nursing practitioners are familiar with the psychosocial pain symptoms in the targeted ethnic people and can readily provide evidence-informed care practices to meet the caring service needs. Other study results failed to indicate to what extent psychosocial pain symptoms may increase the risk of chronic problems as prognostic factors influence physical, mental, and cognitive deficits. The health providers and nurses cannot have continuum psychosocial pain care planning. The ongoing research activities related to psychosocial pain care focused on measurement tool inventions, but not on patient-centered therapeutic needs. This indicates clinicians wanted their practice to be evidence-based, not individual patients’ cures in psychosocial pain care that the evidence-based information is not ready yet to serve for interests of the clients.

Conclusions

Research studies produce evidence to indicate psychosocial pain care services are multidimensional and that psychosocial pain symptoms are complex. Health and nursing researchers and clinicians need to produce the strongest collaborative efforts through intra and inter-professional disciplines to promote the research-based intervention and results into evidence-informed practices to serve the most clients or patients as central to improving all for psychosocial health support needs.

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Amy Ng

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Amy Ng

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University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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