Harnessing Online Peer Education Opioid Study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pain; Medication Compliance

• Registration Number: NCT05814315
• Lead Sponsor: ElevateU

Brief Summary

The investigators have created an online peer support platform for chronic pain patients on opioid medications. This platform provides peer support and online mental health counselor run support groups to help participants manage pain and not abuse opioid medications.

Detailed Description

This study determined the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an online support and risk reduction platform to prevent opioid misuse and abuse. This is an urgent area of research; opioid misuse/abuse has reached epidemic proportions in recent years. It is linked to causing the largest drug epidemic in the history of the United States and has become the top priority of the US Surgeon General. Because the opioid crisis (including heroin use) is believed to have largely originated from chronic pain patients' opioid prescriptions, this application will initially focus on the needs of chronic pain patients on opioids who are high risk for addiction and overdose. Later versions of the technology will expand to the broader population of people affected by the opioid crisis, including heroin users.

Although low cost, novel interventions are needed to reduce opioid misuse and abuse, before they lead to addiction and fatal overdose, only 6 behavioral (non-pharmacological) randomized controlled trials have been successfully conducted in this area to date (with our group having conducted one of them), creating a tremendous need for solutions to the opioid crisis. Building off extensive preliminary research that our team conducted, including piloting technology-based behavior change interventions among chronic pain patients, and developing artificial intelligence (AI)-based prediction models of opioid outcomes, we propose to design and test the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of an online peer social support and clinical counseling community to reduce opioid misuse/abuse among chronic pain sufferers.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-05-01
• Primary Completion: 2022-08-31
• Study Completion: 2022-09-30
• Study First Submitted: 2023-03-31
• Status Verified: 2023-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2023-04-13
• Last Update Submitted: 2023-04-13
• Study First Posted: 2023-04-14
• Last Update Posted: 2023-04-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 67

Inclusion Criteria

adults over 18, COMM scores at risk of misuse, prescribed opioids by doctor -

Exclusion Criteria

cancer patients, elicit drug users, under 18 years

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale 7 scores	12 weeks	Anxiety levels

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Beck Depression Inventory scores	12 weeks	Depression levels
Current Opioid Misuse Measure scores	12 weeks	common opioid misuse measure

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

ElevateU; 🇺🇸 Corona Del Mar, California, United States

ElevateU

🇺🇸Corona Del Mar, California, United States