NCT05645562

Pain Education Program in the Sport Population

Effects of the Pain Education Program in the Sport Population

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of the Balearic Islands · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 14 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study is designed to evaluate the effects of a pain neuroscience education program in pain perception, wellness and pain catastrophizing of youth athletes. For this, an experimental study with an intervention group (IG) and a control group (CG) is designed. During 12 weeks of the 2022-2023 season, CG will receive a self-care education program, with information about health habits in the sport (rest, nutrition, body care and recovery). Meanwhile, IG will also receive a pain neuroscience education program, with information about biological, psychological and perceptual aspect of pain in the sports context. The study will be developed in the Sport High Performance Centre of Balearic Islands, from January to May. All athletes from this sports centre will be invited to participate in the study throughout an e-mail invitation from their sport regional federation. Prior to the beginning of the study, all participants will sign the inform consent. The Ethical Committee of the local university approved this study (280CER22). One week before intervention period, all athletes will be required to complete questionnaire about sociodemographic and sportive data (age, sex, and sport experience). Body mass and height will be also evaluated. Also, all the athletes will be required to complete three questionnaires about pain level, wellness and pain catastrophizing. Pain level and wellness will be evaluated prior to the start of the intervention and weekly, until finishing the intervention period. The pain catastrophizing level will be evaluated before and after the intervention period of the study. We hypothesized that those athletes who receive the pain neuroscience education program will increase wellness and decrease pain level and catastrophizing perception compared to those athletes who received a self-care educational program.

Conditions

• Pain
• Sports
• Education

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pain neuroscience education program	1. Types of pain (peripherical and central pain) 2. Pain as information. 3. Benign and harmful pain 4. Psychological factors and pain in sport (Injuries, catastrophizing and pain)
BEHAVIORAL	Self-care education program	1. The importance of resting 2. Nutritional habits 3. Recovery techniques for athletes 4. Principles of stretching, strengthening and endurance training

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-03
• Primary completion: 2023-02-03
• Completion: 2023-05-12
• First posted: 2022-12-09
• Last updated: 2024-10-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain