Neuropsychoanalytic Treatment of Failed Back Surgery Syndrome-Opioid Dependence
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 30
- 主要终点
- Improvement of pain
研究概览
简要总结
Opioid Dependent Patients who have failed back surgery syndrome are detoxified and treated with a neuropsychoanalytic paradigm.
详细描述
Patients were detoxified from opioid analgesics and treated with NSAIDs and other non-opioid analgesics, received neuropsychoanalytic therapy and low dose naltrexone. Patients kept a daily diary of: 0 - 10 pain, 0 - 10 function, hours worked, amount of alcohol drunk, illicit and licit drug use, number of health care provider appointments attended, number of self-help groups meetings attended across each of the six months of study. Six month outcomes of this approach with primary outcomes being sobriety, pain scores and function scores.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Observational
- 观察模型
- Case Only
- 时间视角
- Prospective
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Have failed back surgery syndrome.
- •Have evidence of Opioid Dependence by meeting DSM-IV criteria and by Drug Abuse Screening Test >
- •(In case of a difference in these two measures, clinical staff will talk with the patient to adjudicate the difference.)
- •Be able to understand spoken and written English
- •Reside within 30 miles of the site of treatment for ease of followup
- •Have health insurance or other ability to pay for treatment
排除标准
- •Unable to give consent (e.g. neurological disorders, dementia, psychosis)
- •Co-occurring incapacitating psychiatric disorder such as schizophrenia
- •Financial incentive to stay ill, such as a pending disability claim
- •Member of a vulnerable population, including prisoners
结局指标
主要结局
Improvement of pain
时间窗: Six months
Detoxified patients followed for whether their pain improved.
次要结局
未报告次要终点