Facilitators and Barriers in Neuroscience-based Pain Education Programmes in Primary Care Physiotherapy
Active, not recruitingNCT05860816
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The new approach in pain neuroscience education (PNE) requires specific training for the physiotherapists in charge of applying it. In recent years, public and private initiatives have offered training in different formats, online courses, face to face courses, congresses, that have facilitated access to this knowledge for many professionals. However, this offer lacks a sufficiently deep approach, so that physiotherapists do not develop the necessary skills to put it into practice, in addition to being an area of knowledge in which the concepts need constant updating given the rapid scientific progress. As with any paradigm shift, there is resistance to change on the part of some professionals, but the extent to which this has a collective impact on the generalization of these interventions is unknown. From our point of view, lack of training is only one of the aspects that hinder the implementation of PNE. Working conditions (pressure of care, high physiotherapist/population ratios, limited time available) and organizational conditions (dependence on hospital services, lack of vision of this model by the PC team) could be among the main daily difficulties in implementing it. The main objective of this study is to detect the barriers and facilitators that primary care physiotherapists have to implement programmes based on the new paradigm of pain neuroscience in the treatment of patients with chronic pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing Pain Neuroscience Education Programmes for the Treatment of Patients With Chronic Pain in Primary Care Physiotherapy Units: the Physiotherapist's Perspective
- Conditions
- Chronic Primary Pain
- Musculoskeletal Pain
- Fibromyalgia
- Interventions
- Other: Survey
- Sponsor
- Castilla-León Health Service
- Start date
- 2023-05-12
- Primary completion
- 2023-12-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Primary Care Physiotherapists in the Spanish national health system with more than two years of experience. Exclusion Criteria: * Less than two years of experience in Primary Care * Do not work in the public system
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05860816