Effectiveness of a Pain Science Education Programme in Adolescent Students. (EDEA)

University Rovira i Virgili

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Chronic Pain; Pediatric ALL; Pain

Treatments: Other: Pain Science Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06060431

02/2022

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to analyze the effectiveness of a Pain Science Education program to improve the conceptualization of pain in adolescents between 11 and 13 years old, schooled in the first year of Compulsory Secondary Education.

Full description

Design:

Randomized controlled clinical trial. The primary endpoint of the study was pain conceptualization recorded by a questionnaire.

Setting:

The participants were school-age children attending a different high school in the province of Barcelona.

Participants:

Of the 450 potential school participants, 306 agreed to participate. 13 pupils were excluded when applying the eligibility criteria, so the resulting sample was of 293

Enrollment: 293 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 11 to 13 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• to be schooled at the El Cim school
• to be between 10 and 16 years old (both included)
• to have or have had pain in the last month; to be able to read and write in Catalan and/or Spanish.

Exclusion criteria

• had an intellectual disability and/or cognitive impairment that interfered with their participation
• had not submitted the informed consent form duly completed and signed by their legal guardians

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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293 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

The experimental group will carry out the sessions of the specific Pain Sciences program. This intervention is based on two educational sessions of 90 and 60 minutes each, separated by one week.

Treatment:

Other: Pain Science Education

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will not perform any specific intervention and will follow their usual academic curriculum.