Knowledge Beliefs and Expectations of Chronic Musculoskeletal Patients About Their Physiotherapy Program

University of Thessaly

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05707559

N8

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to investigate the knowledge, beliefs and expectations of patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain about their physiotherapy program and the relationship that they built with physiotherapists.

Full description

The main questions of this study are:

Have patients with chronic pain educated in pain? To what extent physiotherapists use appropriate communication skills and show empathy? What expectations do the patients have of their rehabilitation program?

Enrollment: 278 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain more than 3 months and intensity more than 3/10 VAS.
• Greek speaking patients
• patients who are following or followed a physiotherapy treatment for their pain

Exclusion criteria

• None