Yoga for Pain and Opioid Dependence
Phase 1
Completed
- Conditions
- Chronic PainOpioid Addiction
- Interventions
- Other: YogaBehavioral: Educational Counseling
- Registration Number
- NCT01590251
- Lead Sponsor
- Yale University
- Brief Summary
This study is designed to develop an effective adjunctive treatment using yoga for chronic pain and opioid dependence.
- Detailed Description
This study aims to develop an adjunctive novel treatment intervention using yoga in opioid agonist maintained patients to effectively treat the co-occurring disorders of non-malignant chronic pain and opioid dependence (POD).
Specific Aims:
1) To conduct a pre-pilot phase with 8 patients with POD receiving opioid agonist maintenance treatment.
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 8
Inclusion Criteria
- 18 years of age or older
- Prescription opioid addiction or heroin addiction
- Moderate to severe chronic pain,
- Understands English
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Exclusion Criteria
- Current suicide or homicide risk
- Life threatening or unstable medical condition
- Medical or psychiatric condition that is judged to be of clinical concern by the PI or admitting clinician
- Pregnancy
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Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- FACTORIAL
- Arm && Interventions
Group Intervention Description Yoga Yoga Gentle yoga for chronic pain and opioid dependence Educational Counseling Educational Counseling Educational counseling is a didactic, lecture-discussion format to supplement the information and advice provided in opioid agonist maintenance treatment.
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Reduce illicit opioid use 8 weeks Reduced illicit opioid use will be measured by patient self-report and urinalysis testing.
Pain reduction 8 weeks Pain reduction will be measured by patient self-report using standard pain rating scales.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
MRU
🇺🇸New Haven, Connecticut, United States