A Randomized Trial of Live versus Video Delivery of Pain Neuroscience Education for Middle School Children

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Patricia Benz Adriaan Louw Anne Kruse Colleen Louw Jessie Podolak Kory Zimney

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Adriaan Louw
International Spine and Pain Institute, PO Box 232, Story City, IA 50248

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Objectives: To compare if a video-delivered pain neuroscience education (PNE) session yield comparable results to a live-PNE session delivered to middle school students in terms of pain knowledge and attitudes and beliefs regarding pain. Methods: Two hundred and fifty-one 5th through 8th grade middle school students were randomly assigned to receive a live (n = 147) or video-delivered (n = 104) presentation (30 minutes). Prior to and immediately following the lectures, students completed a knowledge of pain questionnaire (Neurophysiology of Pain Questionnaire – NPQ) and beliefs regarding pain questionnaire (Health Care Provider’s Pain and Impairment Relationship Scale - HC-PAIRS). Results: Both video (p < 0.001) and live presentations (p < 0.001) yielded significant increases in pain knowledge and both showed large effect sizes (video 0.81 and live 0.82) as well. Pain beliefs questions of “You can control how much pain you feel” and “Your brain decides if you feel pain, not your tissues” both had significant changes (both groups p < 0.001), with moderate effect size for both groups (video .45 and .56; live .51 and 68). Conclusion: A 30-minute video-delivered PNE resulted in similar changes to a live, in-person PNE session. The results from this study may help PNE approaches for middle schools to become standardized, costeffective and scalable. Larger trials with long-term follow-up are needed to determine if video-delivery PNE is effective in altering behavior change.

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Publication history

Received: Thu 06, Jun 2019
Accepted: Wed 03, Jul 2019
Published: Fri 19, Jul 2019

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© 2023 Adriaan Louw. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.PDR.2019.02.03