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

NCT05722587 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 2022 Oct 11360 Mankelow
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 167
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

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.

Conditions

Pain, Chronic

Keywords

pain knowledge; pain beliefs; pain behaviour; experience of intervention

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Pain Beliefs Questionnaire (PBQ)

  Helps to identify if participant beliefs are biomedical or biopsychosocial focussed, 12-item (Edwards et al, 1992, Walsh and Radcliffe, 2002). There are 2 scales within the PBQ: the organic beliefs scale has 8 items, with score ranges from 8-48, lower scores indicate less biomedical views and higher scores indicate more biomedical views. The psychological scale within the PBQ has 4 items with a score range of 4-24, a higher score indicates more biopsychosocial beliefs about pain and a lower score indicates less biopsychosocial beliefs.

  3 months

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Concept of Pain Inventory-Adult (COPI-Adult)

  3 months

Other Outcomes (1)

• Vignette

  3 months

Study Arms (2)

Pain education day

EXPERIMENTAL

Pain education day, lecture and experiential

Other: Pain science education

Control

NO INTERVENTION

No intervention

Interventions

Pain science education OTHER

High school students receiving a day of pain science education in multiple formats, lectures, experiential, completing a task which consolidates the information.

Also known as: Pain neuroscience education

Pain education day

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 16 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17), Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• 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.

You may not qualify if:

• Students not providing consent.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Teesside University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Teesside University

Middlesbrough, TS1 3BX, United Kingdom

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Lecturer in Rehabilitation Science

Model Details: multi site, non-randomised controlled, mixed methods study

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: February 1, 2023
• First Posted: February 10, 2023
• Study Start: March 2, 2023
• Primary Completion: March 2, 2023
• Study Completion: June 2, 2023
• Last Updated: July 20, 2023

Record last verified: 2023-07

Locations

GB (1)