Education programs for people living with chronic pain: a scoping review
Article Category: Review
Published Online: Jan 05, 2021
Page range: 307 - 319
Received: Mar 07, 2020
Accepted: May 17, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/fon-2020-0040
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Objective
The aim of this scoping review was to provide evidence for health practitioners to improve patient education practice for chronic pain management.
Methods
A scoping review was guided by Arksey and O'Malley's (2005)
Results
Seven quantitative studies were included. Education content consisted of General information, Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT), Self-management, and Pain neurophysiology (PN). Education delivery formats varied from workbook to workbook, face-to-face, online, when given for a group or individual or in a combined way. In total, 19 tools were reported for the evaluation of the education programs.
Conclusions
There is a variety in the education content and the delivery formats. The majority of programs showed effectiveness in patients’ chronic pain management based on their selected evaluation tools. This review showed that patient education programs can be useful in chronic pain management. The effectiveness of patient education programs focuses on the improved patients’ physical function and quality of life rather than the cessation of pain only.