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Students' Understanding and Beliefs About Pain Before and After a One-day Pain Science Education Conference: an Intervention

T

Teesside University

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pain, Chronic

Treatments

Other: Pain science education

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05722587
2022 Oct 11360 Mankelow

Details and patient eligibility

About

The beliefs held by students lead to behaviours in response to their pain which can be both helpful or a hindrance to how they manage their pain. The one-day education event aims to educate the cohort on the contemporary scientific understanding of persistent pain using a mixture of methods. It is hoped this event will result in an improvement in the alignment of beliefs and behaviours to contemporary understanding of persistent pain.

The principal aim is to evaluate the pre-post knowledge and beliefs about pain following a one-day pain education event in year 12 students, aged 16 or above.

Full description

The students will be asked to complete questionnaires three times relating to their understanding and beliefs relating and intended behaviour in the presence of pain. Once at the start of the conference and once at the end, then finally after 3 months. The questionnaire will gather demographic information (age, gender, ethnicity and any history of persistent pain). There will also be a series of multiple-choice questions relating to knowledge and beliefs about persistent pain. The three time points of questionnaire completion will see the students complete the same questionnaire except they will not have to repeat demographic questions. The questionnaire should take 5-10 minutes to complete each time. The questionnaires will be provided online and links will be provided to participants.

This is a non-randomised controlled trial and a second school selected as it is part of the same group of schools and equally matched according to the English Indices of Deprivation 2019. This school will complete the survey at the same time points.

Enrollment

167 patients

Sex

All

Ages

16+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Students at two specified schools in North Yorkshire who had been offered the pain study day in year 12 or are in the intervention or control school in year 12 or 13
  • Aged above 16.
  • Providing consent to participate.

Exclusion criteria

  • Students not providing consent.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

Non-Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

167 participants in 2 patient groups

Pain education day
Experimental group
Description:
Pain education day, lecture and experiential
Treatment:
Other: Pain science education
Control
No Intervention group
Description:
No intervention

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Cormac Ryan, PhD; Jagjit Mankelow, PhD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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