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Healthcare Professional Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Chronic Pain Management.

NCT03522857 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 1150

Last updated 2019-10-15

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Chronic pain affects from one third to one half of the population in the UK (Fayaz et al, 2016). The cost and burden of chronic pain is significant to health services worldwide. The affects of chronic pain are widespread upon the lives of those affected. Health professionals need to be better equipped than at present to manage pain and current chronic pain management knowledge in healthcare is poor. Briggs et al 2011 described the hours of pain education delivered at undergraduate level as 'woefully inadequate'. The International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) defined curricula for pain education at undergraduate level 6 years ago but current levels of knowledge at undergraduate health professional level are not widely known. This study aims to establish this at the outset of a pre-registration health professional courses and at the end of these courses.

This study aims to identify the baseline knowledge and attitudes of pre-registration healthcare students in Universities throughout UK and Ireland toward chronic pain management. The disciplines targeted are nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, diagnostic radiography and paramedics.

It is a cross sectional study that compares attitudes and knowledge of first year and final year pre-registration healthcare students in the UK and Ireland. These parameters are measured using the HC-PAIRS measure and Revised Neurophysiology Questionnaire respectively. In addition anonymous data is collected pertaining to participant characteristics which are institute of study, age, gender, level and discipline of study to enable a comparison between these parameters.

Conditions

  • Chronic Pain
  • Student Education
  • Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • King's College London

    collaborator OTHER

  • Glasgow Caledonian University

    collaborator OTHER

  • University of Nottingham

    collaborator OTHER

  • Northumbria University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Leeds Beckett University

    collaborator OTHER

  • Teesside University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jagjit Mankelow, MSc · Teesside University

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2017-11-15
Primary Completion
2019-09-30
Completion
2019-09-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

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