Department of Physiotherapy, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Groningen, Netherlands.
Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Center for Rehabilitation, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
Physiother Theory Pract. 2024 May;40(5):1040-1053. doi: 10.1080/09593985.2022.2144562. Epub 2022 Nov 22.
Access to pain education for healthcare professionals is an International Association for the Study of Pain's key recommendation to improve pain care. The content of preregistration and undergraduate physical therapy pain curricula, however, is highly variable.
This study aimed to develop a list, by consensus, of essential pain-related topics for the undergraduate physical therapy curriculum.
A modified Delphi study was conducted in four rounds, including a Delphi Panel ( = 22) consisting of in pain experienced lecturers of preregistration undergraduate physical therapy of Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, and five Validation Panels. Round 1: topics were provided by the Delphi Panel, postgraduate pain educators, and a literature search. Rounds 2-4: the Delphi Panel rated the topics and commented. All topics were analyzed in terms of importance and degree of consensus. Validation Panels rated the outcome of Round 2.
The Delphi Panel rated 257, 146, and 90 topics in Rounds 2, 3, and 4, respectively. This resulted in 71 topics judged as "not important," 97 as "important," and 89 as "highly important." In total, 63 topics were rated as "highly important" by the Delphi Panel and Validation Panels.
A list was developed and can serve as a foundation for the development of comprehensive physical therapy pain curricula.
国际疼痛研究协会的一项重要建议是让医疗保健专业人员接受疼痛教育，以改善疼痛护理。然而，注册前和本科物理治疗疼痛课程的内容差异很大。
本研究旨在通过共识制定一份本科物理治疗课程中与疼痛相关的基本主题清单。
采用改良 Delphi 研究法进行四轮研究，包括由荷兰应用科学大学注册前本科物理治疗讲师组成的 Delphi 专家组（n=22），以及五个验证专家组。第一轮：由 Delphi 专家组、研究生疼痛教育者和文献检索提供主题；第二轮至第四轮：Delphi 专家组对主题进行评分和评论。根据重要性和共识程度分析所有主题。验证专家组对第二轮的结果进行评分。
在第二轮、第三轮和第四轮中，Delphi 专家组分别对 257、146 和 90 个主题进行了评分。结果有 71 个主题被评为“不重要”，97 个主题被评为“重要”，89 个主题被评为“非常重要”。共有 63 个主题被 Delphi 专家组和验证专家组评为“非常重要”。
制定了一份清单，可为全面的物理治疗疼痛课程的开发提供基础。
