Effects of Traditional Pain Education and Pain Neuroscience Education on Pain Attitudes and Beliefs in Physiotherapy Assistant Students
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 41
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- The Health Care Pain Attitudes and Impairment Relationship Scale
研究概览
简要总结
The goal of this educational trial is to learn whether Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) improves pain-related attitudes and beliefs in physiotherapy assistant (PTA) students in Turkey compared to traditional pain education. The main questions this study aims to answer are:
Does a single-session PNE-based education improve students' beliefs about the relationship between pain and disability? Does it reduce reliance on biomedical (organic) pain beliefs compared to traditional pain education? In this study, researchers will compare PNE-based education to traditional pain education, both delivered through 70-minute lectures.
Participants were randomly assigned to either the PNE group or the traditional education group, attended a one time 70-minute classroom lecture, completed questionnaires at three time points: before the session, immediately after, and 3 months later.
The main tools used will be the Health Care Providers' Pain Attitudes and Impairment Relationship Scale (HC-PAIRS) and the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire (PBQ), which includes organic and psychological subscales.
This study aims to support the integration of contemporary pain neuroscience content into physiotherapy assistant curricula to enhance biopsychosocial understanding at an early stage of professional education.
详细描述
In Turkey, research on the impact of pain neuroscience education (PNE) on the knowledge, beliefs, and attitudes of undergraduate physiotherapy students remains scarce. Moreover, there appears to be no study that directly contrasts traditional pain education with a PNE-based approach that conceptualizes pain as an outcome-driven process, enriched with metaphors and storytelling. Existing literature suggests that physiotherapy assistant programs often provide limited exposure to neuroscience content, which may contribute to the lack of significant improvements in students' understanding and attitudes toward pain following PNE.
Against this background, the current study was developed to explore how a metaphor-supported, case-based PNE intervention influences the pain-related knowledge and beliefs of physiotherapy assistant students. To the best of our knowledge, no prior study in Turkey has systematically evaluated the effects of PNE within this specific student group. Therefore, a randomized controlled trial was designed to compare the outcomes of traditional structural pain education and a neuroscience-based educational program on pain-related beliefs and attitudes among physiotherapy assistant students.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Other
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Students were eligible to participate if they were undergraduate physiotherapy assistant students enrolled at the Vocational School of Health Services.
排除标准
- •Individuals were excluded if they had previously received in-depth teaching on pain neurophysiology or traditional pain education.
研究组 & 干预措施
Traditional Pain Education
Participants in the control group received a 70-minute lecture based on the biomedical model of pain.
干预措施: Traditional pain education (Other)
PNE based education
Students in the intervention group received a 70-minute lecture grounded in the biopsychosocial model of pain.
干预措施: PNE-based education (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
The Health Care Pain Attitudes and Impairment Relationship Scale
时间窗: Participants completed the HC-PAIRS at baseline, Day 1 and 3 months.
The HC-PAIRS is a 12-item scale that measures healthcare providers' beliefs about how much pain leads to disability in low back pain cases, using a 7-point Likert scale. Higher scores indicate more negative attitudes. The Turkish version was validated and showed strong reliability (ICC = 0.85).
次要结局
- Pain Beliefs Questionnaire(Participants completed the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire at baseline, Day 1 and 3 months)
研究者
Hatice Gül
Head of Therapy and Rehabilitation Department of Vocational School of Health Services
Akdeniz University