Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Chronic Pain Management Training Program

Evaluation of the Efficiency of the Chronic Pain Management Education Program Developed for Nursing Students

The research will be conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of the web-based chronic pain management training program developed for nursing students. It is planned in a randomized controlled triple-blind design with the final year nursing students of the Nursing Department of Çankırı Karatekin University in a pre-test-post-test order.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Chronic Pain; Nursing Caries
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: No intervention; Other: chronic pain management education program

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 66
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Turkey
  • Çankırı, Turkey, 18700
    • Nefise Cevriye SUCU ÇAKMAK

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 35 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Nursing Grade 4
• with internet access
• Students who volunteered to participate in the research

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having a diagnosed psychiatric disorder
• Difficulty in understanding and speaking Turkish
• Graduated from Health Vocational High School
• Attending any training on pain and/or having a pain education certificate

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Triple

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Sham Comparator: Control group; The students in the control group will be given a pre-test, and two weeks later, the post-test will be applied. After the chronic pain education group completes the research, the chronic pain education program will be opened to the students in the control group, too.	Other: No intervention; No intervention will be made.; Other Names: Control group
Experimental: Chronic pain education group; The pre-test will be opened to the students in the chronic pain education group simultaneously with the opening of the post-tests for the control group.After the students in the chronic pain education group completed the pre-test, the chronic pain management training program developed for nursing students will be applied for 2 weeks. Post test will be applied at the end of all training videos and evaluation questions.	Other: chronic pain management education program; The chronic pain management training program will be applied for 2 weeks. The training consists of 15 videos about theory and practice topics in chronic pain management. There are evaluation questions at the end of each video.; Other Names: Experimental group

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Introductory features form	It was prepared by the researcher in line with the literature knowledge. In the form of introductory characteristics of nursing students; There are 7 questions about the students' date of birth, gender, whether they have chronic pain, whether they have chronic pain from family members they live with, in which clinics they do internship, and whether they find themselves competent in the management of chronic pain of the patients they care for.	pre-intervention
Scale of attitudes of students studying in the field of health towards patients with chronic pain	The Attitude Scale of Health Students towards Patients with Chronic Pain is a 5-point Likert scale and has 18 items. It consists of two factors: sensitivity orientation and error orientation. The Cronbach's Alpha coefficients are 0.88 and 0.75 for the first and second factors, respectively. Each factor gets a separate score. Each item in the factors receives a score between "1" and "5". The scores are summed up and divided by the number of items, then a score between 1 and 5 is obtained, thus a standard evaluation of two factors can be done. There is no cut-off score in the scale. An increased score from the sensitivity and misconception orientation factors indicates that healthcare professionals' attitude towards patients with chronic pain is positively strong. On the other hand, a low score on these factors indicates a strong negative attitude.	pre-intervention
Scale of attitudes of students studying in the field of health towards patients with chronic pain	The Attitude Scale of Health Students towards Patients with Chronic Pain is a 5-point Likert scale and has 18 items. It consists of two factors: sensitivity orientation and error orientation. The Cronbach's Alpha coefficients are 0.88 and 0.75 for the first and second factors, respectively. Each factor gets a separate score. Each item in the factors receives a score between "1" and "5". The scores are summed up and divided by the number of items, then a score between 1 and 5 is obtained, thus a standard evaluation of two factors can be done. There is no cut-off score in the scale. An increased score from the sensitivity and misconception orientation factors indicates that healthcare professionals' attitude towards patients with chronic pain is positively strong. On the other hand, a low score on these factors indicates a strong negative attitude.	immediately after the intervention
Chronic pain management knowledge test	The knowledge test on chronic pain management was created by the researchers in line with the literature. The knowledge test for chronic pain management includes 24 case-based five-choice multiple-choice questions. In this test, each correct answer is 1 point and a wrong answer is zero. The total score is obtained by adding the scores obtained from the test. The highest score that can be obtained from the test is 24, and the lowest score is zero. An increase in the score obtained from the test indicates that the participant's level of knowledge about chronic pain management increases, while a decrease in the score indicates a low level of knowledge.	pre-intervention
Chronic pain management knowledge test	The knowledge test on chronic pain management was created by the researchers in line with the literature. The knowledge test for chronic pain management includes 24 case-based five-choice multiple-choice questions. In this test, each correct answer is 1 point and a wrong answer is zero. The total score is obtained by adding the scores obtained from the test. The highest score that can be obtained from the test is 24, and the lowest score is zero. An increase in the score obtained from the test indicates that the participant's level of knowledge about chronic pain management increases, while a decrease in the score indicates a low level of knowledge.	immediately after the intervention
Chronic pain management training program evaluation form	Chronic pain management training program evaluation Form, Game-based virtual reality application evaluation form in Bıyık-Bayram and Çalışkan's (2017) The Effects of Game-Based Virtual Reality Application on Nursing Students' Learning Tracheostomy Care, was revised and revised to the chronic pain management training program. has been prepared. This form consists of two parts. The first part consists of two open-ended questions about the positive and negative thoughts of the students about the chronic pain management education program, and the second part consists of 16 questions that include 5-point Likert-type scoring in which the statements about the education program are evaluated. Each item in the form receives a score between "1" and "5". An increase in the score obtained from the form indicates that the participant evaluated the chronic pain management training program p vely.This form will be filled by the students in the experimental group at the end of the post-test.	immediately after the intervention

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Çankırı Karatekin University

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): May 16, 2022
• Primary Completion (Actual): June 13, 2022
• Study Completion (Actual): June 13, 2022

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 27, 2022
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 9, 2022
• First Posted (Actual): May 12, 2022

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): January 11, 2023
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 10, 2023
• Last Verified: January 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Chronic pain; Nursing student education; Web-Technology based education
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Chronic Pain
• Other Study ID Numbers: NSUCUCAKMAK

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: No

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No