NCT03483168

Culturally Sensitive Pain Education Program for Turkish Patients

Completed NA Last updated 5 October 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Culturally sensitive pain education in Chronic Low Back Pain in 29 participants. Completed in 1 October 2018.

Timeline

1 April 2018

Primary endpoint
1 October 2018

1 October 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Hacettepe University
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	single
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	29
Start date	1 April 2018
Primary completion	1 October 2018
Estimated completion	1 October 2018
Sites	1 location across Belgium

Drugs / interventions tested

• Culturally sensitive pain education
• Standard pain education program

Conditions studied

• Chronic Low Back Pain — all drugs for Chronic Low Back Pain →

Sponsor

Hacettepe University

Who can join

Adults 18 to 65, any sex, with Chronic Low Back Pain. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

In last decade, the awareness has grown regarding the pain neuroscience education (PNE). In the literature, it has been found that there is strong evidence that the educational strategy of pain neuroscience education (PNE) can have positive effects on pain, disability, catastrophization, and physical performance in chronic musculoskeletal disorders. Nowadays, many physiotherapists integrate the PNE into the treatment of chronic pain. However, the importance of culturally sensitive approaches for the treatment of chronic pain has been proposed depending on the cultural differences of pain beliefs, pain cognitions, pain experiences and pain coping strategies in different ethnic populations. Therefore, the aim of this study is to compare the effects of a culturally sensitive PNE with a standard translated PNE on pain intensity, disability status, pain pressure thresholds and psychosocial factors (conceptualization of pain, pain beliefs, catastrophizing, kinesiophobia and illness perception) in Turkish patients with chronic low back pain (LBP).

The effects of culturally sensitive PNE format will be compared with the standard translated PNE in a pilot trial. 40 Turkish patients (first generation migrant living around Ghent) with chronic LBP, between the age of 18 and 65 years, will be randomized to the culturally sensitive PNE or standard translated PNE. The content of 2 sessions PNE include the explanation about differences of acute and chronic pain, purpose of acute pain, production of acute pain and chronic pain, and potential sustaining factors for central sensitization, but presented in different ways. They will be subjected to an individual education session and they will receive a home education program. In session 2 (after 1 week), they will come back to ascertain that everything is understood.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.