Self Reported Deviations From Opioid Analgesic Prescription
Completed
Conditions studied: Advanced Cancers
In brief
Primary Objective: 1. To determine the frequency of self-reported over and under use of opioid analgesics in patients with advanced cancer. Patients with advanced cancer are those patients who have been described to have either one of the following: recurrent disease, those that have failed multiple chemotherapies (more than second line therapy), locally advanced disease, and metastatic disease. Secondary Objectives: 1. To determine the association between patients' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs about opioids, and frequency of deviation in opioid use with patients' demographic information. 2. To determine association between alcohol abuse/chemical coping and self-reported deviations in opioid use. 3. To determine the association between the use of opioids and patient-related barriers to opioid use.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00907192
- Run by
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- People needed
- 201
- Starts
- 2009-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2013-06-18
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Patients must be at least 18 years old and have a diagnosis of advanced cancer.
- Patients must be given prescriptions for around the clock (ATC) and as needed (for breakthrough pain) oral opioids for cancer pain on the previous visit to the Palliative Care Clinic.
- Patients must be able to understand, read, write, and speak English.
- Patients must have no clinical evidence of cognitive impairment, as determined by the primary palliative care physician.
- Patients must sign an informed consent.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients who have the caregiver as the primary person that does the management of opioid medication intake will be excluded as analysis is focused on patients' and not the family or caregivers' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs as it relates to the primary objective.
Where it is running
- UT MD Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States
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