Tse Mimi Mun Yee, Tang Angel, Budnick Andrea, Ng Shamay Sheung Mei, Yeung Suey Shuk Yu
1 School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Kowloon, Hong Kong .
2 Institute of Medical Sociology and Rehabilitation Science, Berlin, Germany .
Cyberpsychol Behav Soc Netw. 2017 May;20(5):305-313. doi: 10.1089/cyber.2016.0580.
Pain is common among university students. Unrelieved pain has adverse impacts on their quality of life. In this study, a pain management Web site was developed to distribute an online survey and provide Web-based pain education to university students. Participants were recruited from eight universities in Hong Kong using snowball sampling. The online survey included 37 items examining pain situations, pain management strategies, knowledge about self-medication, and demographic data of the participants. A total of 387 students participated and over 90 percent of them reported pain in the past 6 months. Around one-third of participants did not take any action to manage their pain. Pharmacological method was the most common strategy for students to relieve pain (37.2 percent). The use of over-the-counter (OTC) drug for pain relief was high (n = 214). However, OTC drug knowledge score was significantly higher among health-related group than nonhealth-related group (p < 0.001). There were 188 students who also read the Web-based pain education and completed the evaluation on its usefulness. Nonhealth-related students reported significantly higher scores of self-perceived usefulness for the online education than the health-related students (p < 0.001). Findings suggested the need to consider the service users' background when developing online education program in the future.
疼痛在大学生中很常见。未缓解的疼痛会对他们的生活质量产生不利影响。在本研究中，开发了一个疼痛管理网站，用于开展在线调查并为大学生提供基于网络的疼痛教育。采用滚雪球抽样的方法从香港八所大学招募参与者。在线调查包括37个项目，用于考察疼痛情况、疼痛管理策略、自我用药知识以及参与者的人口统计学数据。共有387名学生参与，其中超过90%的学生报告在过去6个月内有疼痛经历。约三分之一的参与者未采取任何措施来管理他们的疼痛。药物治疗是学生缓解疼痛最常用的策略（37.2%）。使用非处方（OTC）药物缓解疼痛的情况很普遍（n = 214）。然而，与健康相关专业组的非处方药物知识得分显著高于非健康相关专业组（p < 0.001）。有188名学生阅读了基于网络的疼痛教育内容并完成了对其有用性的评估。非健康相关专业的学生对在线教育自我感知有用性的评分显著高于健康相关专业的学生（p < 0.001）。研究结果表明，未来在开发在线教育项目时需要考虑服务用户的背景。
