The Effect of Pain Education Group Therapy and Its Impact on Chronic Pain, Kinesiophobia, and Physical Activity

Physical Activity in Patients With Chronic Pain, Its Adherence to WHO Physical Activity Recommendations, and Its Associations With Kinesiophobia, Central Sensitization, Depression, and Pain Intensity

The goal of this clinical trial is to learn if pain knowledge group intervention among chronic pain patients would influence their level of physical activity, pain intensity, depression, kinesiophobia and central sensitization. The main question it aims to answer is:

Primary hypothesis: pain education will decrease participants' depression and pain intensity and increase their physical activity.

There is no comparison group.

Participants will participate in a 6-week pain knowledge intervention where they will be learning about sleep, stress models, physical activity benefits, pain neurobiology, mindfulness, pain medication.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pain lasting longer than 3 months,
• Consequences resulting from long-term pain (such as decreased physical activity, sleep disturbances, fatigue, low mood, etc.)

Exclusion Criteria:

• Surgery that occurred less than 3 months prior
• Fracture or limb trauma that occurred less than 3 months prior