NCT06909461

The Effect of Pain Neuroscience Education

The Effect of Pain Neuroscience Education on Physiotherapy Students' Knowledge, Attitudes and Behaviours Towards Pain: A Single-blinded Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 52 (actual)
• Sponsor: Celal Bayar University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 22 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to examine the effect of pain neuroscience education (PNE) on physiotherapy students' knowledge, attitudes and behaviors towards pain. A total of 52 physiotherapy students will be included in the study. Students will be randomly randomly assigned to either PNE group (n=26) or control group (CG) (n=26). The PNE group will be receive a 70-min PNE based on the explanations used in "Explain Pain". The CG group will be received an education about red-flags which are special screening questions for serious pathology. The red-flags education will be discussed tissue pathology and Waddell's triage for back pain classification.Neurophysiology and the biopsychosocial model will not be discussed. Before, immediately after, and 2-months after the education sessions all students will be completed four questionnaires, the Revised Neurophysiology Pain Questionnaire (RNP-Q), the Health Care Providers' Pain and Impairment Relationship Scale(HC-PAIRS), and the red-flags questionnaire.

Conditions

• Student Education

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pain neuroscience education	The pain neuroscience education group will be receive a 70-min pain neuroscience education.
OTHER	Red-flags education	The control group will be receive a 70-min red-flags education.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-04-05
• Primary completion: 2025-06-05
• Completion: 2025-06-15
• First posted: 2025-04-03
• Last updated: 2025-06-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)