Abstract
Background
School-based health education programs on chronic pain providing information about the proper management of recurrent and chronic pain may increase health literacy in terms of pain knowledge and may thereby prevent dysfunctional coping and may decrease the risk of pain chronification. The aim of the present feasibility study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational movie on recurrent and chronic pain in increasing pain knowledge among students.
Methods
N=95 adolescent students provided demographic and pain-related information and completed a pain knowledge questionnaire before and after viewing an educational movie on recurrent and chronic pain. Participants were classified as experiencing frequent pain if they reported pain at least once a week in the last three months.
Results
One-third of the participants experienced frequent pain. There was a significant increase in pain knowledge for all participants (ηp 2=0.544). Students with frequent pain had a stronger knowledge increase regarding the management of chronic and recurrent pain than those without frequent pain (ηp 2=0.087). Sex did not moderate the gain in pain knowledge.
Conclusions
This feasibility study provides first evidence that a short educational movie on recurrent and chronic pain may increase chronic pain health literacy in students. Future studies should investigate the long-term retention of pain knowledge and any associated effects on behavior change. Due to barriers to implementation of interventional studies in the school setting, these studies should use a waitlist control group design and online data collection.
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