HEALTHCARE STUDENTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC PAIN (quantitative)

Çankırı Karatekin University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Attitude of Health Care Students; Attitude to the Patient With Chronic Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06030778

Nefise C. SUCU ÇAKMAK

Details and patient eligibility

About

Researchers studied the attitude towards patients with chronic pain, it is a very important issue for the literature. The prevalence of chronic pain is very high in the world, however, patients with chronic pain state at every opportunity that patients are not sufficiently understood and stigmatized by healthcare professionals. In this article, researchers studied the validity and reliability of the scale of the attitude of healthcare professionals towards their patients with chronic pain in students studying in the field of health (medicine, physical therapy and rehabilitation, nursing). Researchers found that the Healthcare Professionals' Attitudes towards Patients with Chronic Pain Scale was valid and reliable in healthcare students. Thanks to this scale, students' attitudes towards patients with chronic pain will be measured, and an idea will be gained about the student's deficiency.

Enrollment: 205 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Medicine, nursing, and physical therapy and rehabilitation students in their final year, With internet access, Who want to participate in the study.

Exclusion criteria

Medicine, nursing, and physical therapy and rehabilitation 1st, 2nd, and 3rd year undergraduate students Not wanting to participate in the research

Trial design

205 participants in 1 patient group

intervention group

Description:

The descriptive characteristics form and the attitude scale of healthcare professionals towards their patients with chronic pain were administered to 205 students from the departments of medicine, physical therapy and rehabilitation, and nursing who agreed to participate in the study. The attitude scale of the health professionals towards their chronic pain patients was applied to 29 randomly selected students among these 205 students 15 days later.