Chronic Pain Attitudes Medical and Physiotherapy Students

Teesside University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Physiotherapy students; Other: Medical students

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03902626

062/18

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an analysis of data collected from 2009-2014 from medical students at GCU and physiotherapy students at UoG measuring attitudes towards patients with chronic low back pain and their functionality.

Full description

This is longitudinal study with the data collected from 2009-2014 from medical students and physiotherapy students at two different Scottish universities measuring attitudes towards patients with chronic low back pain and their functionality. The outcome measure used was HC-PAIRS the original 15 point Likert Scale. Data was analysed using SPSS (version 25). All data was found to be normally distributed. Descriptive statistics were presented as mean (Standard Deviation). Inferential statistics were carried out using a two-way ANOVA with year of study and discipline of degree as independent variables with post hoc analysis. A p-value of <0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Enrollment: 267 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-Engaged in the 2009 physiotherapy degree at Two Scottish universities

Exclusion criteria

-Anyone who is not on the above degree courses.

Trial design

267 participants in 2 patient groups

Physiotherapy students

Description:

Degree course

Treatment:

Other: Physiotherapy students

Medical students

Description:

Degree course

Treatment:

Other: Medical students