Efficacy of Pain Neuroscience Education and Pre-anesthetic Assessment in Reducing Levels of Anxiety, Stress and Pain in Patients Undergoing Elective Total Abdominal Hysterectomy (ENAH Study)

A total of 1 PNE sessions (Neuroscience pain education) will be carried out, in addition medical treatment similar to control group (Usual care). The PNE sessions will be conducted by an experienced PNE certified proffesional in 35 minute face-to-face sessions. In PNE, the patient is taught about the physiology of pain, central sensitization, representation of the different body regions in the brain, pain-related changes in body perception, and the psychosocial dimensions of pain.

The control group (Usual care) is treated with pre-anesthetic assessment + usual treatment, management for analgesic medication pre, during and post hysterectomy. Depending on the medical needs and criteria of patients´s care physician.