Healthcare Professional Students' Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Chronic Pain Management.

Brief summary (from the registry)

Chronic pain affects from one third to one half of the population in the UK (Fayaz et al, 2016). The cost and burden of chronic pain is significant to health services worldwide. The affects of chronic pain are widespread upon the lives of those affected. Health professionals need to be better equipped than at present to manage pain and current chronic pain management knowledge in healthcare is poor. Briggs et al 2011 described the hours of pain education delivered at undergraduate level as 'woefully inadequate'. The International Association for Study of Pain (IASP) defined curricula for pain education at undergraduate level 6 years ago but current levels of knowledge at undergraduate health professional level are not widely known. This study aims to establish this at the outset of a pre-registration health professional courses and at the end of these courses. This study aims to identify the baseline knowledge and attitudes of pre-registration healthcare students in Universities throughout UK and Ireland toward chronic pain management. The disciplines targeted are nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, diagnostic radiography and paramedics. It is a cross sectional study that compares attitudes and knowledge of first year and final year pre-registration healthcare students in the UK and Ireland. These parameters are measured using the HC-PAIRS measure and Revised Neurophysiology Questionnaire respectively. In addition anonymous data is collected pertaining to participant characteristics which are institute of study, age, gender, level and discipline of study to enable a comparison between these parameters.

Study details

Official title

Measuring Healthcare Professional Students Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Chronic Pain Management.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Student Education
• Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Sponsor

Teesside University

Collaborators

King's College London; Glasgow Caledonian University; University of Nottingham; Northumbria University; Leeds Beckett University

Start date

2017-11-15

Primary completion

2019-09-30

Sex

All

Age range

from 18 Years

Results posted

No results posted in this snapshot

Countries

United Kingdom

Total sites listed

1

Eligibility criteria