An Evaluation of a Public Health Campaign in a High School Setting Targeting Pain Related Knowledge and Beliefs

Pain, Chronic Clinical Trial

Official title:

An Evaluation of a Public Health Campaign in a High School Setting Targeting Pain Related Knowledge and Beliefs

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05636345
• Other study ID #: teesside university
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 17, 2022
• Est. completion date: March 17, 2022

Study information

• Verified date: January 2023
• Source: Teesside University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial 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. 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 beliefs about pain following a one-day pain education event.

Description:

The students will be asked to complete two questionnaires relating to their understanding of pain. One at the start of the conference and one at the end . The first questionnaire will gather demographic information (age, gender, ethnicity and any history of persistent pain). The following questions will be a series of multiple-choice questions relating to beliefs about persistent pain. The second questionnaire to be completed at the end of the day will be identical to the first, minus the demographic questions. Each questionnaire should take 5-10 minutes to complete. So total involvement in this study will be less than 20 minutes. The questionnaires will be provided in an unmarked brown envelope. The envelope will contain two questionnaires one marked "before" and one marked "after". Participants will be asked to complete the "before" questionnaire at the start of the day and then put it back in their envelope. At the end of the day, they will be asked to complete the "after questionnaire". Participants will keep the envelope with them during the day and at no point will their name or any other identifiable information go on the form. At the end of the day, they will be asked to leave the anonymous envelope in a designated area in the room.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 90
• Est. completion date: March 17, 2022
• Est. primary completion date: March 17, 2022
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria: students at one of six schools in Berkshire who had been offered the pain study day.

Aged above 16. Providing consent to participate.

Exclusion Criteria:

Students not providing consent.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Pain
• Pain, Chronic

Intervention

Other:
• pain science education
A full day of pain science education

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United Kingdom	Queen Anne College	Reading	Berkshire

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Teesside University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (5)

Andias R, Sa-Couto P, Silva AG. Blended-Learning Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise in High School Students With Chronic Neck Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Phys Ther. 2022 Jun 3;102(6):pzac048. doi: 10.1093/ptj/pzac048. — View Citation

Neto M, Andias R, Silva AG. Pain Neuroscience Education and Exercise for Neck Pain: A Focus Group Study on Adolescents' Views. Pediatr Phys Ther. 2018 Jul;30(3):196-201. doi: 10.1097/PEP.0000000000000511. — View Citation

Pate JW, Noblet T, Hush JM, Hancock MJ, Sandells R, Pounder M, Pacey V. Exploring the concept of pain of Australian children with and without pain: qualitative study. BMJ Open. 2019 Oct 28;9(10):e033199. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2019-033199. — View Citation

Pate JW, Simons LE, Rush G, Hancock MJ, Hush JM, Verhagen A, Pacey V. The Concept of Pain Inventory for Adults (COPI-Adult): Assessing Knowledge and Beliefs Regarding Pain Science Education. Clin J Pain. 2021 Oct 12;38(1):32-40. doi: 10.1097/AJP.0000000000000990. — View Citation

Walsh DA, Radcliffe JC. Pain beliefs and perceived physical disability of patients with chronic low back pain. Pain. 2002 May;97(1-2):23-31. doi: 10.1016/s0304-3959(01)00426-2. — View Citation

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	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.	one day
Primary	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).	one day
Primary	Vignette	Participants were 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.	one day
Primary	Semi-structured interviews	To explore pain beliefs after the education day and experience of the education day.	3 months after the pain education day