xPEDition pain: protocol for a quasi-experimental before–after study of a public health campaign on chronic pain in the Ems Dollart Region

AY Sanina, MF Reneman, BL Seves, AP Wolff, C Bantel, S Beinert, M Montes-Martínez, GL Moseley, C Ryan, P van Wilgen, K Tamasi, L Schwettmann, R Soer · 2026

Read xPEDition pain: protocol for a quasi-experimental before–after study of a public health campaign on chronic pain in the Ems Dollart Region by AY Sanina, MF Reneman, BL Seves, AP Wolff, C Bantel, S Beinert, M Montes-Martínez, GL Moseley, C Ryan, P van Wilgen, K Tamasi, L Schwettmann, R Soer (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13548268.txt.

Description

Sanina and colleagues lay out a protocol for a cross-border chronic pain campaign. Their protocol paper from twenty twenty-six covers the Ems Dollart border region. Chronic pain affects roughly one in six adults there. Lower incomes and physical jobs raise the burden locally.

The campaign teaches modern pain science to the general public. It targets common myths about pain causes and management. A before-and-after design will judge campaign effects. Dutch and German communities both sit inside the study region. Health literacy gaps form part of the problem addressed. Large public campaigns are rarely evaluated this carefully. Results may guide pain education in other border regions.

Catalog record

CREATORAY Sanina, MF Reneman, BL Seves, AP Wolff, C Bantel, S Beinert, M Montes-Martínez, GL Moseley, C Ryan, P van Wilgen, K Tamasi, L Schwettmann, R Soer
YEAR2026
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE52 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC13548268

Browse the full library · About the Tower of Babel