Does a bespoke education session change levels of catastrophizing, kinesiophobia and pain beliefs in patients with patellofemoral pain? A feasibility study

OBJECTIVES: To assess the feasibility of a 30-minute education session for patients with patellofemoral pain on levels catastrophizing and kinesiophobia. DESIGN: Randomised study SETTING: Three sites within single NHS Organisation in England. PARTICIPANTS: Thirty-one adult were screened inclusion, resulting twenty-four who had clinical diagnosis being randomised equally to either intervention or control group. INTERVENTION: Participants conditions; both received standardized physiotherapy while intervention/experimental group educational addressing causes pain, beliefs about noise that comes from joint, impact activity, influence other family members’ experience knee pain. Intervention participants also given an leaflet: ‘Managing My Patellofemoral Pain’. MAIN OUTCOMES: recruitment, retention, fidelity. Patient reported outcome measures (PROMs): Knee injury Osteoarthritis Outcome Score osteoarthritis (KOOS-PF), Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS) Tampa Kinesiophobia (TSK). RESULTS: The was successful recruiting retaining delivered as intended. In addition, sufficient data generated calculate required sample size future efficacy CONCLUSIONS: This which featured targeting kinesiophobia is feasible identified TSK may be most appropriate PROMs this intervention. Allowing drop out 20% similar studies, 86 (per arm) two-arm would traditional controlled trial design.