Training to improve analgesic prescription for chronic pain

INTERVENTION: Intervention group: half a day lecture session with exercises and group work using principles of ACT ‐ psychological flexibility and mindfulness. Control group: half a day lecture session on guidelines related to pain and exercises and group work based on motivational interviewing techniques. Follow‐up questionnaires two weeks later. Fifty minute lecture on prescribing opioids for persistent pain (all participants). CONDITION: Topic: Generic Health Relevance and Cross Cutting Themes, Primary Care Research Network for England; Subtopic: Generic Health Relevance (all Subtopics); Disease: Other ; Signs and Symptoms ; Chronic pain PRIMARY OUTCOME: GP self‐reported prescribing, measured at the start of the training day, and two weeks later. SECONDARY OUTCOME: Psychological acceptance, measured at the start of the training day, at the end of the training day, and two weeks later. INCLUSION CRITERIA: 1. Must be a general practitioner 2. Either sex, any age