Students' Understanding and Beliefs About Pain Before and After a One-day Pain Science Education Conference: an Intervention
Primary Purpose
Pain, Chronic
Status
Completed
Phase
Not Applicable
Locations
United Kingdom
Study Type
Interventional
Intervention
Pain science education
Sponsored by
About this trial
This is an interventional basic science trial for Pain, Chronic focused on measuring pain knowledge, pain beliefs, pain behaviour, experience of intervention
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria: 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. Exclusion Criteria: Students not providing consent.
Sites / Locations
- Teesside University
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Arm Type
Experimental
No Intervention
Arm Label
Pain education day
Control
Arm Description
Pain education day, lecture and experiential
No intervention
Outcomes
Primary Outcome Measures
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.
Secondary Outcome Measures
Concept of Pain Inventory-Adult (COPI-Adult)
The Concept of Pain Inventory-Adult was designed for assessing knowledge and beliefs about pain science (Pate et al, 2022). It is a 13-item questionnaire. Higher COPI-Adult scores reflect greater alignment with contemporary pain science (Total scores can range from 0-52).
Full Information
1. Study Identification
Unique Protocol Identification Number
NCT05722587
Brief Title
Students' Understanding and Beliefs About Pain Before and After a One-day Pain Science Education Conference: an Intervention
Official Title
Students' Understanding and Beliefs About Pain Before and After a One-day Pain Science Education Conference: a Mixed-methods Evaluation
Study Type
Interventional
2. Study Status
Record Verification Date
July 2023
Overall Recruitment Status
Completed
Study Start Date
March 2, 2023 (Actual)
Primary Completion Date
March 2, 2023 (Actual)
Study Completion Date
June 2, 2023 (Actual)
3. Sponsor/Collaborators
Responsible Party, by Official Title
Principal Investigator
Name of the Sponsor
Teesside University
4. Oversight
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Drug Product
No
Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated Device Product
No
Data Monitoring Committee
No
5. Study Description
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.
Detailed Description
The students will be asked to complete questionnaires three times relating to their understanding and beliefs relating and intended behaviour in the presence of pain. Once at the start of the conference and once at the end, then finally after 3 months. The questionnaire will gather demographic information (age, gender, ethnicity and any history of persistent pain). There will also be a series of multiple-choice questions relating to knowledge and beliefs about persistent pain. The three time points of questionnaire completion will see the students complete the same questionnaire except they will not have to repeat demographic questions. The questionnaire should take 5-10 minutes to complete each time. The questionnaires will be provided online and links will be provided to participants.
This is a non-randomised controlled trial and a second school selected as it is part of the same group of schools and equally matched according to the English Indices of Deprivation 2019. This school will complete the survey at the same time points.
6. Conditions and Keywords
Primary Disease or Condition Being Studied in the Trial, or the Focus of the Study
Pain, Chronic
Keywords
pain knowledge, pain beliefs, pain behaviour, experience of intervention
7. Study Design
Primary Purpose
Basic Science
Study Phase
Not Applicable
Interventional Study Model
Parallel Assignment
Model Description
multi site, non-randomised controlled, mixed methods study
Masking
None (Open Label)
Allocation
Non-Randomized
Enrollment
167 (Actual)
8. Arms, Groups, and Interventions
Arm Title
Pain education day
Arm Type
Experimental
Arm Description
Pain education day, lecture and experiential
Arm Title
Control
Arm Type
No Intervention
Arm Description
No intervention
Intervention Type
Other
Intervention Name(s)
Pain science education
Other Intervention Name(s)
Pain neuroscience education
Intervention Description
High school students receiving a day of pain science education in multiple formats, lectures, experiential, completing a task which consolidates the information.
Primary Outcome Measure Information:
Title
Pain Beliefs Questionnaire (PBQ)
Description
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.
Time Frame
3 months
Secondary Outcome Measure Information:
Title
Concept of Pain Inventory-Adult (COPI-Adult)
Description
The Concept of Pain Inventory-Adult was designed for assessing knowledge and beliefs about pain science (Pate et al, 2022). It is a 13-item questionnaire. Higher COPI-Adult scores reflect greater alignment with contemporary pain science (Total scores can range from 0-52).
Time Frame
3 months
Other Pre-specified Outcome Measures:
Title
Vignette
Description
Participants will be asked what actions they would take if they had pain with regards to medication, scans, daily activity, exercise and work either based on yes/no answers or four to five multiple choice answers. The percentage of recommendations in keeping with guidelines were measured from 0-100% with lower scores indicating intended behaviours that were not in keeping with guidelines.
Time Frame
3 months
10. Eligibility
Sex
All
Minimum Age & Unit of Time
16 Years
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
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.
Exclusion Criteria:
Students not providing consent.
Facility Information:
Facility Name
Teesside University
City
Middlesbrough
ZIP/Postal Code
TS1 3BX
Country
United Kingdom
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