Knowledge and attitude about pain among undergraduate physiotherapy students.

Completed

• Conditions: Knowledge and attitude about pain

• Registration Number: CTRI/2022/09/045463
• Lead Sponsor: Satvik

Brief Summary

According to the available literature, the pain curricula for physiotherapy students in different countries are insufficient and the current curriculum in India consists of very limited hours of pain education, which falls short on their practical skills. Thus, influencing their attitude towards the management of pain.

There are no studies assessing the knowledge and attitude of undergraduate physical therapy students with clinical exposure and without clinical exposure, which can give us a quantifiable value of the same. Thus, helps develop a baseline value of the current status of pain knowledge and attitude among various groups of students

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-09-15
• Study Completion: 2023-02-24
• Last Update Posted: 2023-03-24

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 206

Inclusion Criteria

• Students enrolled in undergraduate physiotherapy program.
• Students with access to mobile phone and internet.

Exclusion Criteria

• Students without access to internet 2.
• Subjects who are not willing to participate 3.Postgraduate physiotherapy students.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Observational
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Neurophysiology of pain questionnaire	At the end of academic year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Health care providers- Pain and impairment	relationship scale

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Nitte institute of physiotherapy; 🇮🇳 Kannada, KARNATAKA, India

Nitte institute of physiotherapy

🇮🇳Kannada, KARNATAKA, India

Nityal Kumar Alagingi

Principal investigator

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nityal86@gmail.com