Critiques pain management programs as part of study
Brenton Stacey
Public relations officer
Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia
A car accident has led to an Avondale College staff member completing a Master of Education (Honours) from the University of New England.
Rose-lee Power found adult pain management programs offered in hospitals in Australia are not education accredited and do not follow adult learning principles and methods. Credit: Melissa Preston.
Associate librarian Rose-lee Power completed a pain management program following a six-month stay in hospital, but she says the program made the injury worse.
The experience inspired the writing of her thesis, “Chronic pain management and adult learning: toward a different understanding.”
The main finding from Rose-lee’s qualitative study shows adult pain management programs offered in many hospitals in Australia are not education accredited and do not follow adult learning principles and methods
“They claim to be educational but come under the guise of medical treatment,” says Rose-lee. “Learning is not sustained.”
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