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Central Sensitization in Medical Students

NCT05495594 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 324

Last updated 2022-08-25

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Summary

Central sensitization (SS); is a physiological phenomenon caused by neuronal dysregulation and hyperexcitability in the central nervous system, resulting in hypersensitivity to painful and painless stimuli.Central sensitization syndromes (CSS); defines disorders in which SS originates and cannot be medically explained by any organic cause. CSS include clinical conditions such as fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS), chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), temporomandibular joint disorders (TMD), migraine/tension type headache, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), restless legs syndrome (RLS). These disorders have many common clinical features such as pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, increased sensitivity to painful and painless stimuli, coexistence, paresthesia, psychosocial disorders, and show the presence of SS.

The Central Sensitization Inventory (SSI) is a short, easy-to-apply scale consisting of 25 questions that identifies key symptoms in patients with SS and quantifies the degree of these symptoms. The Turkish adaptation and validity-reliability study of the SSE was conducted in 2021.

In this descriptive, cross-sectional study, it was planned to investigate the presence of central sensitization and related factors in medical faculty students.

In the 2021-2022 academic year of Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Medicine, a total of 324 students, the number determined as a result of power analysis, will be asked to fill in a short form in which the factors related to the "Central Sensitization Inventory" and demographic data are questioned. Then, statistical analysis will be applied with the analyzed data.In addition, Central Sensitization Inventory scores of students in each term will be compared with each other.

Conditions

  • Central Sensitisation

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Dokuz Eylul University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elif Akalın, MD,Prof · Medical Faculty of Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
25 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-04-01
Primary Completion
2022-06-30
Completion
2022-07-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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