NCT01182402

Electronic Compliance Monitoring in Opioid Substitution Treatment

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 37 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kuopio University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to improve unsupervised dosing of opioid substitution medications. The aim of the study is to examine whether electronic compliance monitoring provides some advantages to patients'treatment and what kind of patients especially benefit from monitoring. We would also like to know if electronic compliance monitoring can prevent the abuse/diversion of medications and how implementing this method to wider treatment facilities succeeds.

Conditions

• Opiate Dependence

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Compliance monitoring with electronic device	Patients get all their unsupervised substitution medication doses in electronic monitoring devices during the study. Daily dose of the drug is possible to get from the device in given time points and in the meantime device is locked.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-09-01
• Primary completion: 2011-02-01
• Completion: 2011-02-01
• First posted: 2010-08-16
• Last updated: 2011-03-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Finland