Clinical trial NCT05722587: 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
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Pain, Chronic
Keywords: pain knowledge
pain beliefs
pain behaviour
experience of intervention
Lead sponsor: Teesside University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-02-10
Enrollment: 167
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 16
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: multi site, non-randomised controlled, mixed methods study
Primary purpose: BASIC_SCIENCE

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.

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.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Pain Beliefs Questionnaire (PBQ)
timeFrame: 3 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Concept of Pain Inventory-Adult (COPI-Adult)
timeFrame: 3 months
Other outcomes:
measure: Vignette
timeFrame: 3 months
Locations:
city: Middlesbrough
country: United Kingdom
facility: Teesside University
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