Harnessing Online Peer Education Opioid Study

NCT ID: NCT05814315

Last Updated: 2023-04-14

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

67 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2022-05-01

Study Completion Date

2022-09-30

Brief Summary

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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

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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.

Conditions

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Medication Compliance Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

PREVENTION

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Participants

Study Groups

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HOPE Intervention

These participants will have peer support and online support groups.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

HOPE Intervention

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Participants used the Health Checkins Platform for 12 weeks for emotional support and to obtain pain management tools

Control

The control will not have any support provided.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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HOPE Intervention

Participants used the Health Checkins Platform for 12 weeks for emotional support and to obtain pain management tools

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Exclusion Criteria

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Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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ElevateU

INDUSTRY

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Locations

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ElevateU

Corona del Mar, California, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

Other Identifiers

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ElevateU

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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