Pain Education Program in the Sport Population

October 17, 2024 updated by: University of the Balearic Islands

Effects of the Pain Education Program in the Sport Population

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.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

40

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Spain
    • Balearic Islands
      • Palma De Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain, 07009
        • Sport High Performance Center of Balearic Islands

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

14 years to 18 years (Child, Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • to have at least 14 years old
  • to have at least 2 years of experience in the sport

Exclusion Criteria:

  • to have sustained an injury during the previous 6 months to start of the study
  • to have sustained a surgery during the previous 12 months to start of the study

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Prevention
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Double

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Active Comparator: Control group
The control group will receive a self-care education program (once time per month, during 4 months). This program will include information about health habits in the sport.
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
Experimental: Intervention group
Intervention group will receive a pain neuroscience education program (once time per month, during 4 months). This program will include information about biological, psychological and perceptual aspects of pain in the sport context.
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)

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Wellness level
Time Frame: Change from baseline and between group differences in wellness during and after the intervention period of 12 weeks
It is composed by seven questions about wellness, perceived effort, training volume. Wellness was assessed throughout four questions about the subjective perception of the quality of sleep, the amount of stress, the level of perceived fatigue, mood and perceived muscle damage. Each question is individually scored from 1 ("Very, very low, or very, very good") to 5 ("Very, very high, or very, very bad"), being 25 the maximal punctuation.
Change from baseline and between group differences in wellness during and after the intervention period of 12 weeks
Pain level
Time Frame: Change from baseline and between group differences in pain during and after the intervention period of 12 weeks
Pain intensity is assessed by using the Pain Visual Analog Scale (VAS, 0-10), ranging from 0 (no pain) to 10 (the worst imaginable pain). In case of pain existence, anatomical location, duration (days), sports practice affection (yes/no) were also collected
Change from baseline and between group differences in pain during and after the intervention period of 12 weeks
Pain catastrophizing level
Time Frame: Change from baseline and between group differences in pain catastrophizing after the intervention period of 12 weeks
It is designed to evaluate the catastrophizing level of athletes throughout the Pain Catastrophism Scale (PCS). The PCS assesses catastrophic level associated to pain experience through thirteen 4-points Likert items (from 0, not at all, to 4, all the time). Apart from global Catastrophism, PCS evaluates four subscales regarding rumination, helplessness, and magnification. The maximal score is 50 points.
Change from baseline and between group differences in pain catastrophizing after the intervention period of 12 weeks

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

University of the Balearic Islands

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 3, 2023

Primary Completion (Actual)

February 3, 2023

Study Completion (Actual)

May 12, 2023

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

December 1, 2022

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 1, 2022

First Posted (Actual)

December 9, 2022

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

October 21, 2024

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

October 17, 2024

Last Verified

March 1, 2023

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 280CER22

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

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