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## ABSTRACT The scientific literature reveals a surprising lack of knowledge of chronic pain mechanisms and its management amongst health care professionals, including physicians and physiotherapists. There is little information directly related to a comparison between medical and physiotherapy students’ knowledge of chronic pain. This study aimed to determine and compare the level of knowledge of chronic pain and its management between final year medical (__n__=126) and physiotherapy students (__n__=62). A chronic pain questionnaire which included two sections on knowledge and one section on management was used to gather quantitative and qualitative data. Final year physiotherapy students were found to have statistically greater knowledge of chronic pain than final year medical students (__p__=0.01 and __p__=0.002). In contrast, medical students were found to have statistically significantly greater understanding of the management of patients with chronic pain (__p__=0.001). Male students from both groups scored significantly higher in the management section (__p__=0.008) as did older students (__p__=0.01). There was a lack of understanding, in varying degrees, of central sensitiz

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Author

Nada Ali; D.I. Thomson

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley; FASEB (ISSN 1090-3801)

Published

2009

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)