An Exploration of the Impact of Pain Education on GP Practice Staff

NCT ID: NCT04587596

Last Updated: 2021-05-07

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

15 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-11-01

Study Completion Date

2019-12-20

Brief Summary

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The aim of the research project is to quantify GP practice staffs' knowledge of chronic pain, their attitudes towards people with chronic pain and their management of a hypothetical patient with chronic pain, following a pain education session.

The study also seeks to explore GP practice staffs' experience of receiving the pain education, their understanding of pain following the education and if they perceive the education session has impacted upon their daily practice.

Detailed Description

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Inappropriate, biomedical based views of chronic pain are commonly held by health care professionals (HCPs) and these in turn can result in patients receiving sub-optimal care out of step with current guidelines. It has been found that healthcare professionals management techniques did not reflect recognised treatment guidelines and this was associated with their biomedical view of chronic pain.

Pain education/training sessions for health care staff may be an important step towards improving patient care for chronic pain. It has been found that there was improvement in nurses' knowledge after 2 different pain education sessions delivered to nurses however there was no long term follow up. Furthermore, no studies have targeted all members of staff at a GP surgery who will interact with the patient, and thus impact upon the care they receive.

Pain Neuroscience education (PNE) is an approach to pain education which uses pain science information to shift the belief system of the receiver away from a biomedical understanding of pain to a more biopsychosocial understanding of pain.

A number of studies have shown that this education can decrease biomedical attitudes in health care students. Thus, it may be that this education could produce similar positive effects in GP practice staff that could have positive implications for the care of patients with chronic pain.

Thus this study aims to assess the impact on attitudes and beliefs of pain education upon staff at a GP surgery in Middlesbrough. Attitudes and beliefs will be assessed before and after the delivery of education. In addition participants will be invited to attend one of two focus groups to further discuss their findings or thoughts about the lecture.

Conditions

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Chronic Pain

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Study Groups

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Clinical staff

All clinical staff employed at one surgery in Middlesbrough, UK who wish to participate

Pain education

Intervention Type OTHER

70 minute lecture about chronic pain and one focus group afterwards

Interventions

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Pain education

70 minute lecture about chronic pain and one focus group afterwards

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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Pain neurophysiology education Therapeutic neurophysiology education

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Clinical non-NHS staff at a Middlesbrough GP Surgery.

Exclusion Criteria

* Non-clinical staff at a Middlesbrough GP surgery and staff who are not directly employed by the Surgery.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Teesside University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Mrs Jagjit Mankelow

Principal Investigator

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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J Mankelow, MSc

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Teesside University

Locations

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Linthorpe Surgery

Middlesbrough, , United Kingdom

Site Status

Countries

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United Kingdom

References

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Mankelow J, Ryan CG, Green PW, Taylor PC, Martin D. An exploration of primary care healthcare professionals' understanding of pain and pain management following a brief pain science education. BMC Med Educ. 2022 Mar 28;22(1):211. doi: 10.1186/s12909-022-03265-2.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35351106 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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205/18

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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