Pain Neuroscience Education in Old Adults.

University of Barcelona

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Behavioral: PNE

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03523949

END65

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objectives of this study are to:

• Evaluate the ability of the older adults to understand the biological processes underneath a pain experience.
• Evaluate their ability to modify their behaviors and beliefs about pain and health.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to test the effectivity of a single, group-based session of pain neuroscience education (PNE) on old adults. Participants will be 65 years or older, and they will be recruited from primary care medical clinics, public lectures, community centers and through the word of mouth. The intervention consist in one educational session of pain neuroscience education delivered by a physiotherapist. The study design is a single arm, crossover clinical trial, participants will be assessed in 3 different times (1 month before PNE ,pre-PNE, post-PNE) for knowledge of pain neuroscience, pain attitudes, pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear of movement.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Subjects 65 years old or more.
• Able to speak and read in Spanish.

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive impairment. Global Deterioration Scale and Functional Assessment Staging (GDS-FAST) will be used for the screening, excluding the subjects with a level 3 or above in the GDS-FAST scale.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

PNE.

Experimental group

Description:

Procedure: This educational intervention is based in the latest evidence of pain neuroscience education, used in multiple rehabilitation programs. Its aim is to change the subject's pain understanding, teaching them the biological processes underneath the pain construct, as a mechanism to reduce itself and its related maladaptive thoughts and behaviors.

Treatment:

Behavioral: PNE