Educational needs and preferences of adult patients with acute or chronic pain: a mixed methods systematic review protocol

Mélanie Bérubé; Michael Verret; Géraldine Martorella; Marc-Aurèle Gagnon; Laurence Bourque; Marie-Philippe Déry; Anne Hudon; Lesley Norris Singer; Andréane Richard-Denis; Simon Ouellet; Caroline Côté; Lynn Gauthier; Line Guénette; Marie-Pierre Gagnon

doi:10.11124/JBIES-22-00298

Educational needs and preferences of adult patients with acute or chronic pain: a mixed methods systematic review protocol

JBI Evid Synth. 2023 Oct 1;21(10):2092-2098. doi: 10.11124/JBIES-22-00298.

Authors

Mélanie Bérubé^{1

2}, Michael Verret^{3

4}, Géraldine Martorella^{5

6}, Marc-Aurèle Gagnon¹, Laurence Bourque¹, Marie-Philippe Déry⁶, Anne Hudon^{7

8}, Lesley Norris Singer⁹, Andréane Richard-Denis^{10

11}, Simon Ouellet^{1

2}, Caroline Côté^{1

2}, Lynn Gauthier^{1

12}, Line Guénette^{1

13}, Marie-Pierre Gagnon^{2

14}

Affiliations

¹ Population Health and Optimal Practices Research Unit Research Unit, Research Centre of the CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
² Faculty of Nursing, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
³ Faculty of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Program, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
⁵ College of Nursing, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA.
⁶ Department of Nursing, CHU de Québec-Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
⁷ School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁸ Centre de Recherche Interdisciplinaire en Réadaptation du Montréal Métropolitain, Montreal, QC, Canada.
⁹ School of Physical and Occupational Therapy, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
¹¹ Research Centre, Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
¹² Department of Family and Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
¹³ Faculty of Pharmacy, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.
¹⁴ VITAM-Centre de recherche en santé durable, Université Laval, Quebec City, QC, Canada.

PMID: 37128807
DOI: 10.11124/JBIES-22-00298

Abstract

Objectives: This review will aim to synthesize the available quantitative and qualitative evidence on the educational needs and preferences of adult patients with acute or chronic pain.

Introduction: Acute and chronic pain are prevalent problems and are associated with significant individual and societal consequences. Education is a critical component of pain management. However, the impact of educational interventions on pain outcomes remains limited. The lack of patient input--what patients want to know and how they want to be informed--is one of the main issues underlying intervention design.

Inclusion criteria: We will include qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies describing the educational needs and preferences of adult patients with acute or chronic pain.

Methods: This review will follow the JBI guidelines for mixed methods systematic reviews. We will search MEDLINE (PubMed), Embase (Ovid), PsycINFO (Ovid), CINAHL (EBSCO), the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Web of Science, and ProQuest Dissertations and Theses. The search strategy will commence from the year 1990 onward and there will be no language restrictions. The retrieved titles, abstracts, and full-text reports will be screened by pairs of independent reviewers. These pairs of reviewers will also independently extract data using the JBI tools for mixed methods systematic reviews. Methodological quality will be assessed using the mixed methods appraisal tool. A convergent integrated approach to synthesis and integration of the quantitative and qualitative data will be used.

Review registration: PROSPERO CRD42022303834.

MeSH terms

Adult
Chronic Pain* / therapy
Humans
Pain Management
Review Literature as Topic
Systematic Reviews as Topic