Chronic Pain Attitudes Medical and Physiotherapy Students

Completed

• Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain
• Interventions: Other: Medical students; Other: Physiotherapy students

• Registration Number: NCT03902626
• Lead Sponsor: Teesside University

Brief Summary

This is an analysis of data collected from 2009-2014 from medical students at GCU and physiotherapy students at UoG measuring attitudes towards patients with chronic low back pain and their functionality.

Detailed Description

This is longitudinal study with the data collected from 2009-2014 from medical students and physiotherapy students at two different Scottish universities measuring attitudes towards patients with chronic low back pain and their functionality. The outcome measure used was HC-PAIRS the original 15 point Likert Scale. Data was analysed using SPSS (version 25). All data was found to be normally distributed. Descriptive statistics were presented as mean (Standard Deviation). Inferential statistics were carried out using a two-way ANOVA with year of study and discipline of degree as independent variables with post hoc analysis. A p-value of \<0.05 was considered statistically significant.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-09-01
• Primary Completion: 2013-01-01
• Study Completion: 2013-01-01
• Status Verified: 2019-04
• Study First Submitted: 2019-04-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2019-04-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-04-03
• Study First Posted: 2019-04-04
• Last Update Posted: 2019-04-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 267

Inclusion Criteria

-Engaged in the 2009 physiotherapy degree at Two Scottish universities

Exclusion Criteria

-Anyone who is not on the above degree courses.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Medical students	Medical students	Degree course
Physiotherapy students	Physiotherapy students	Degree course

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
HC-PAIRS (Health care providers pain and impairment relationship scale)	1 x year for duration of degree course at start of first semester	15 point Likert Scale ranging in score from 15 to105 with a low score reflecting an attitude towards patients with pain and their functionality which is in keeping with best evidence research and scientific knowledge. Subscales are not valid for this outcome measure.