Case-based learning in cross-professional groups - the development of a pre-registration interprofessional learning programme.

This paper describes the development and evaluation of an interprofessional learning (IPL) programme at the pre-registration level. The principal aim of the study was to investigate whether case-based learning in cross-professional groups is a feasible and an effective way to conduct interprofessional education (IPE). Student volunteers from five different health professional training programmes were allocated to two groups: an intervention group and a control group.

Development of the 'Attitudes to Health Professionals Questionnaire' (AHPQ): a measure to assess interprofessional attitudes.

This paper describes the development and preliminary validation of a measure to investigate interprofessional attitudes and how these attitudes change over time. Items for the questionnaire were elicited from 'construct exercises' with staff from different Health Schools resulting in a 20-item 'Attitudes to Health Professionals Questionnaire' (AHPQ). The questionnaire was completed by first year students from five different health professions.

Investigation of quality of life, mood, pain, disability, and disease status in primary systemic vasculitis.

Objective: To assess quality of life (QOL) and psychological adjustment in primary systemic vasculitis (PSV), and to assess their relationship to disease-related measures.

Methods: Fifty-one PSV patients completed questionnaires assessing QOL (Short Form 36 [SF-36]), disability (Health Assessment Questionnaire [HAQ]), and mood (Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [HADS]). Illness-related measures, disease activity, and permanent damage scores (the Birmingham Vasculitis Damage Index [BVDI] modified, and the Birmingham Vasculitis Activity Scale modified) were collected.

Outpatient cognitive behavioral pain management programs: a randomized comparison of a group-based multidisciplinary versus an individual therapy model.

Objective: To compare the efficacy of 2 models of chronic pain management.

Design: Randomized comparative trial with 2 active treatment arms.

Setting: Outpatient pain management clinics.

Children in pain: an investigation of selective memory for pain and psychological adjustment.

This study investigated the effects of chronic pain on processing and recall of pain-related and neutral information in a group of children suffering from chronic pain due to juvenile arthritis, and a control group. Children were asked to encode pain-sensory, pain-affective and neutral words in a self and another person reference condition. Percentage recall and processing time for each wordtype were used as dependent measures.

The relationship between gender and family history of pain with current pain experience and awareness of pain in others.

This study aimed to evaluate the relationship between family history of pain and current pain experience in a student population. In a sample of 180 students who completed a pain history questionnaire there was a significant difference between males and females with women reporting significantly more pain models than men even when menstrual pain models were excluded from the analysis. There was also a difference on current pain symptoms, with women reporting more pain symptoms but this difference was no longer significant when menstrual pain was excluded.

The Pain Beliefs Questionnaire: an investigation of beliefs in the causes and consequences of pain.

This paper reports the development and validation of the Pain Beliefs Questionnaire (PBQ). This is a 20-item questionnaire covering beliefs about the cause and treatment of pain. It was administered to 294 subjects, comprising 100 chronic pain patients and 194 controls.

Memory for pain: a review.

This paper reports a qualitative review of the literature on memory for pain. Most research has focused on the accuracy of memory for pain intensity. There is some evidence that recall is moderately accurate but this conclusion is tentative because of significant methodological problems.