Development of culturally sensitive Pain Neuroscience Education for first-generation Turkish patients with chronic pain: A modified Delphi study


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Orhan C., Cagnie B., Favoreel A., Van Looveren E., Akel U., Mukhtar N. B., ...More

MUSCULOSKELETAL SCIENCE AND PRACTICE, vol.39, pp.1-9, 2019 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

Abstract

Background: Pain Neuroscience Education (PNE) has been recognized as an efficacious approach for chronic pain, but evidence for these findings have mainly been gathered in Caucasian patient populations. In recent years, it has been proposed that the treatment of pain and patient information materials should be culturally sensitive for different ethnic populations and cultures since cultural variations in pain beliefs and cognitions.