The Impact of Pain Neuroscience Education on Physical Therapy Student's Knowledge, Attitudes, Beliefs, and Behaviours Towards Pain

The Hashemite University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Subjects

Treatments: Other: Pain Neuroscience Education; Other: Red Flags Education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06821022

33/1/2024/2025

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigates the effect of pain neuroscience education (PNE) on pain knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors among undergraduate physiotherapy students in Jordan

Full description

Physiotherapy students at the Hashemite University will be randomly assigned into either pain neuroscience education or control lectures groups. Both groups will receive a 70-min didactic group-lecture. The control group will receive education about red-flags which are special screening questions for serious pathology. The red-flags education will discuss tissue pathology and triage for back pain classification. Neurophysiology and the biopsychosocial mode will not be discussed. The intervention group will receive a PNE lecture. All primary and secondary outcome measures consist of validated questionnaires (e.g., RNPQ, HC-PAIRS) or secondary and study-specific instruments that have undergone validation testing.

Enrollment: 120 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Physiotherapy undergraduate students at the Hashemite University

Exclusion criteria

• Previous formal pain education
• Enrolled in a clinical practice module

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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120 participants in 2 patient groups

Pain Neuroscience Education

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Pain Neuroscience Education

Red Flags Education

Active Comparator group