Pain Smart: Integrating pain education and clinical care for adolescents with pain at schools.
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- PainPublic Health - Health promotion/educationAnaesthesiology - Pain management
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12624000253505
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Sydney
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot yet recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 3000
Inclusion Criteria
Participants will be students attending mainstream secondary schools in years 7-9 (ages 11-15). Selection of this participant age group is pragmatic, correlating with the first three years of secondary school and stages 4 and 5 of the New South Wales (NSW) Personal Development, Health, and Physical Education (PDHPE) syllabus. All students will receive the pain education module as part of their usual PDHPE class and data will be collected from consenting students and respective parents/caregivers. Students with language difficulties will be supported by the schools’ Learning Support Officer.
Exclusion Criteria
No students attending the study schools will be excluded from the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Chronic Pain Risk[Paediatric Pain Screening Tool (PPST) Baseline, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention commencement];Pain interference [PROMIS Paediatric Pain Interference Scale-Short Form (PPPI) Baseline, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention commencement];Pain understanding [Conceptualisation of Pain Questionnaire (COPAQ) Baseline, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention commencement]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Health-related quality of Life[5-Dimension health-related quality of life instrument for Young people (EQ-5D-Y-3L) Baseline, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention commencement];Depression and anxiety (composite secondary outcome)[Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) Baseline, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention commencement];School absence due to pain [A modified question (item 8) from the Presence and Impact of Pain in Kids (PIP-Kids) questionnaire: have you missed school due to pain in the last month”. Baseline, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention commencement];Alcohol consumption and smoking behaviours (composite secondary outcome)[A question from the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test - Youth (ASSIST-Y) Baseline, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention commencement];Physical activity and sedentary behaviours (composite secondary outcome)[Two items from the NSW School Students Health Behaviour Survey (SSHBS) Baseline, 3-month and 12-month post-intervention commencement]