Keeping It Simple - Implementing Pain Education for All

Overview

Pain education has proven difficult to implement into clinical practice. In Denmark 4 out of 10 adults has inadequate health literacy levels. To avoid inequality in health care we need a new and accurate method to provide pain education to all who need it. In this study, existing concept of pain education is implemented into clinical practice for a group of chronic pain patients including those with low degrees of health literacy, and then evaluate its use from both patient and physiotherapist perspective.

The focus of this is project is to implement existing knowledge into clinical practice and to adapt and test a tool (i.e., PNE4Kids) that was initially developed to explain pain to children and their parents, for its potential to teach adults in pain about contemporary pain science in a way that takes into consideration those with low degrees of health literacy. Further, we want to test its feasibility in adult pain patients at a community-based rehabilitation center. It is expected that adult patients suffering from chronic pain will find the adapted PNE4Kids, named PNE4Adults, comprehendible, will benefit from this type of pain education in terms of increased pain knowledge and self-efficacy, and decreased pain-intensity and pain catastrophizing thoughts. It is also expected that physiotherapists will find the pain education program easy to engage with and to transfer into a clinical setting.

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