Pain curricula across healthcare professions undergraduate degrees: a cross-sectional study in Catalonia, Spain

BMC Medical Education

Table 1 Response rate and average total hours of pain content by program/discipline

	Total participation		Courses with pain content
Disciplines	n	%	n	Courses	Total hours, mean (SD)	Range
Dentistry	39	55	28	42	115 (47)	94–137
Human Nutrition and Dietetics	35	39	11	19	9 (8)	3–22
Medicine	136	37	70	95	70 (47)	10–127
Nursing	117	47	71	108	87 (65)	21–230
Occupational Therapy	15	26	3	7	13 (9)	7–20
Pharmacy	20	31	5	6	7 (5)	4–11
Physiotherapy	98	31	65	100	97 (34)	34–129
Podiatry	16	37	9	12	88 (21)	73–103
Psychology	102	41	22	24	26 (29)	2–75
Veterinary Science	30	53	9	13	103 (0)	103-103^a

Note: The number of subjects is higher than the number of participants because one leader can lead more than one subject. The variable “Total hours, mean” is the mean number of hours for all the universities for that specific program/discipline. Range includes the lowest and the highest total number of hours per discipline for all the universities included in the study
^aJust one university offers Veterinary Science as an undergraduate program

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