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The Effect of Pain Education on Multidisciplinary Healthcare Students' Understanding of Chronic Pain

NCT03710837 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2020-03-23

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Summary

Chronic pain is the leading cause of disability worldwide affecting just under 28 million people in the UK. Chronic pain conditions require a biopsychosocial rather than a biomedical model of care. Biomedical management lacks evidence of effectiveness but also has the potential to exacerbate the condition by raising fears and anxiety about potential pathological abnormalities.

Healthcare professionals often hold negative beliefs about people with chronic pain and view the condition within a biomedical framework. These negative attitudes can be observed at the pre-registration training stage of the health professionals' career. Thus, the pre-registration phase is an important point where an individual's understanding of, and beliefs about, pain and people with pain may be shaped for the future. The need for improved and better education of healthcare professionals to support best practice for low back pain with the aim of integrating professionals' management of low back pain and fostering innovation in practice is well recognised. This study seeks to quantify the benefits of pain education in knowledge, attitudes and beliefs. The findings may encourage other pre-registration institutions to deliver pain education in a more directed way and simultaneously support the International Association for the Study of Pain's (IASP) proposed integration pain education into existing curriculum.

Conditions

  • Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Interventions

OTHER

Pain neuroscience education

Two different lectures covering essential clinical skills but one designed to explore the hypothesis

OTHER

Red flag education

Two different lectures covering essential clinical skills but one designed to explore the hypothesis

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Teesside University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Denis Martin, PhD · Professor at Teesside University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-10-01
Primary Completion
2019-10-15
Completion
2019-10-15

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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