Pain Neuroscience Education in Students

Kutahya Health Sciences University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain; Educational Problems

Treatments: Other: Pain neuroscience education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04007679

KutahyaMSUnpq

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study was designed to evaluate the effect of a 70-minute Pain neuroscience education (PNE) session on physiotherapy students' knowledge of pain and their beliefs and attitudes about the treatment of patients with chronic pain.

Full description

To investigate the effect of a 70 minute pain neuroscience education session on physiotherapy students' knowledge of pain and their beliefs and attitudes about the treatment of patients with chronic pain. This study was a single-center, cross-sectional study on the pain knowledge of students in a four-year physiotherapy program and their beliefs and attitudes about patients with back pain.Students were eligible to participate if they were enrolled at physiotherapy undergraduate program at Kütahya Health Sciences University Faculty of Health Sciences. Individuals were excluded if they had previously received in depth-teaching on pain neuroscience. The study was completed with 156 students from different classes (first, second, and third year of the program) who agreed to participate in the study. All participants were informed about the study and signed informed consent forms. Pain neurophysiology questionnaire and Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Physiotherapists were used to assess pain knowladge and attitudes and beliefs. After recording their demographic information, the participants completed the Neuroscience of Pain Questionnaire (NPQ) and Pain Attitudes and Beliefs Scale for Physiotherapists (PABS-PT) at three time points: pre-PNE, immediately post-PNE, and 6 months after PNE.

Enrollment: 156 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• participants who study in physiotherapy.
• willing to participate

Exclusion criteria

• Individuals in years 4 were excluded.
• participants who received an in-depth session about pain previously.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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156 participants in 1 patient group

Pain education group

Experimental group

Description:

Pain education was conducted in physical conditions similar to the university classrooms where the study was performed for all participants.

Treatment:

Other: Pain neuroscience education