Treatment of Pregnant Women With OUD

NCT ID: NCT04240392

Last Updated: 2025-05-21

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

230 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-06-18

Study Completion Date

2024-10-10

Brief Summary

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The investigators are testing two models of support for pregnant women with an opioid use disorder (OUD)

Detailed Description

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The investigators are proposing a cluster randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness of two models of support for reproductive health clinicians to provide care for pregnant and postpartum women with an OUD: 1) a collaborative care (CC) approach based upon the Massachusetts Office-Based-Opioid Treatment (OBOT) Model that would provide onsite training, and support to providers and participants through the use of care managers (CMs) vs 2) a telesupport approach modeled on the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO), a remote education model that provides mentorship and guided practice and participation in a learning community, via video conferencing.

Conditions

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Opioid-use Disorder

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

This study will use a matched-pair cluster randomized trail design. The investigators will match clinical centers in pairs. The participants in each pair will be randomly assigned to either CC or ECHO using computer generated random numbers.
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Collaborative Care (CC)

The CC team includes an obstetrical provider and a nursing case manager. The obstetrician will see all participants, initially to discuss preferences for addiction treatment, buprenorphine, methadone (MAT) or no MAT. The obstetrician will see participants every 1-2 weeks, as needed and will provide prenatal care. The care team will meet at least monthly and review the participants' status. For research purposes, the CM will obtain informed consent, collect and enter results of the urine drug screen (UDS) into a database. At enrollment and at 26 and 34 weeks' gestation the care manager will ask participants to complete an assessment battery of self-reported measures.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Collaborative Care (CC)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The sites randomized to CC will have 4-6 on-site support visits at the outset of the study. These visits will occur during the first 3 months of the project. During these visits, study staff will again review buprenorphine induction procedures (heretofore referred to as "initiation" rather than "induction") and dosing of buprenorphine as well as therapeutic behavioral treatments. The investigators will provide the center with forms and educational materials as well as an "app" that can be run to help dosing during initiation procedures. At the same time, the investigators will teach obstetricians, nurses and support staff the principles of motivational interviewing. The investigators will set up visits for the CM to meet with a recovery coach trainer provided by the investigators' community partner.

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO)

ECHO is a remote education model that provides mentorship and guided practice and participation in a learning community, via video conferencing. The practice members who participate in ECHO will include obstetricians and nurses as well as other members of the care team who wish to join. Providers are given access to a password-protected website containing the recorded sessions, a discussion board, and resource library. CME credits are available for each session and can motivate providers to attend.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO)

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

The Weitzman Institute (WI), a community partner and provider for the ECHO condition, is a research and innovation center focused on improving care for medically underserved and special populations. Since 2013, CHCI/WI has provided education and technical assistance through an established video conference and online learning platforms to over 800 primary care providers and over 200 care team members who treat patients with chronic pain and opioid addiction. WI partners with national experts in pain care, substance abuse disorder, and MAT to create and deliver a robust training program for clinicians across the country through Project ECHO ®. The WI will work with the study team to develop and staff the sessions.

Interventions

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Collaborative Care (CC)

The sites randomized to CC will have 4-6 on-site support visits at the outset of the study. These visits will occur during the first 3 months of the project. During these visits, study staff will again review buprenorphine induction procedures (heretofore referred to as "initiation" rather than "induction") and dosing of buprenorphine as well as therapeutic behavioral treatments. The investigators will provide the center with forms and educational materials as well as an "app" that can be run to help dosing during initiation procedures. At the same time, the investigators will teach obstetricians, nurses and support staff the principles of motivational interviewing. The investigators will set up visits for the CM to meet with a recovery coach trainer provided by the investigators' community partner.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO)

The Weitzman Institute (WI), a community partner and provider for the ECHO condition, is a research and innovation center focused on improving care for medically underserved and special populations. Since 2013, CHCI/WI has provided education and technical assistance through an established video conference and online learning platforms to over 800 primary care providers and over 200 care team members who treat patients with chronic pain and opioid addiction. WI partners with national experts in pain care, substance abuse disorder, and MAT to create and deliver a robust training program for clinicians across the country through Project ECHO ®. The WI will work with the study team to develop and staff the sessions.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Provision of signed and dated informed consent form
* Females age 18 or older
* Documented pregnancy in the medical record at less than 34 weeks gestation
* Delivery date no later than July 1, 2024
* Willingness to adhere to the study schedule
* Confirmed opioid use disorder by the DSM-5 Opioid Use Disorder questionnaire
* Ability to communicate in English
* No current plan to move out of the obstetrical provider treatment area within the study timeframe of approximately 44 weeks

Exclusion Criteria

* Experiencing cognitive or emotional impairment that precludes the participant from providing informed consent
* Current hospitalization, incarceration, or institutionalization (if women present for care after institutionalization, participation is possible
* Current court case pending that would make incarceration likely during the study treatment period (approximately 44 weeks)
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Yale University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Ariadna Forray, MD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Yale University

Locations

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Hartford Hospital

Hartford, Connecticut, United States

Site Status

Hospital of Central CT

New Britain, Connecticut, United States

Site Status

Yale New Haven Hospital Maternal Fetal Medicine Unit

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Site Status

Yale New Haven Hospital Women's Center/Hill Health Center

New Haven, Connecticut, United States

Site Status

Coastal ObGyn & Midwifery

New London, Connecticut, United States

Site Status

OB Gyn Services PC

Norwich, Connecticut, United States

Site Status

Essex County ObGyn

Beverly, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

AFA Obstetrics & Gynecology

Concord, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Women's Health, Lowell General Hospital

Lowell, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Wesson's Women's Clinic UMASS Baystate

Springfield, Massachusetts, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Kaufman JS, Yonkers KA, Maltz C, Friedhoff CM, Londono Tobon A, Mele A, Tessier-Kay M, Grechukhina O, Lipkind H, Byatt N, Forray A. Reporting Perinatal Substance Use to Child Protective Services: Obstetric Provider Perspectives on the Impact on Care. J Womens Health (Larchmt). 2024 Nov;33(11):1501-1508. doi: 10.1089/jwh.2023.0822. Epub 2024 May 21.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38770764 (View on PubMed)

Forray A, Mele A, Byatt N, Londono Tobon A, Gilstad-Hayden K, Hunkle K, Hong S, Lipkind H, Fiellin DA, Callaghan K, Yonkers KA. Support Models for Addiction Related Treatment (SMART) for pregnant women: Study protocol of a cluster randomized trial of two treatment models for opioid use disorder in prenatal clinics. PLoS One. 2022 Jan 13;17(1):e0261751. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0261751. eCollection 2022.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35025898 (View on PubMed)

Provided Documents

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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan

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Other Identifiers

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MAT-2018C2-12891

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

2000027031

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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