Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03044522
Use of a Nurse Pain Educator for Patients With Chronic Pain
A Multicenter Study Comparing the Patient Outcomes Associated With Use of a Nurse Pain Educator for Patients With Chronic Pain
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 183 (actual)
- Sponsor
- NEMA Research, Inc. · Industry
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepted
Summary
This multicenter randomized (block randomization) controlled parallel arm pilot study comparing the incorporation vs no incorporation of a Nurse Pain Educator into clinics that treat chronic non cancer pain patients with opioid analgesics. Subjects who are either opioid naïve or opioid experienced will be enrolled into the study.
Detailed description
The Nurse Pain Educator arm shall have two phases: a Pre-Teaching Phase and a Teaching/Knowledge Maintenance Phase. During the Pre-Teaching Phase, all subjects who are enrolled will complete different baseline assessments and will be prescribed an opioid. Subjects will then enter the Teaching/Knowledge Maintenance Phase. Subject enrolled into the Nurse Pain Educator arm will be educated on different opioid pain management topics with a focus on safe and appropriate use and consumption of opioid analgesics. Subjects will meet monthly with the Nurse Educator for up to 5 months for reinforcement of their training and to assess their use of their medication, their quality of life and their physical and mental well-being. Subjects who are enrolled into the study arm with no Nurse Pain Educator will be monitored every month to assess their use of their medication, their quality of life and their physical and mental well-being. No intervention will be conducted with these subjects beyond that of standard of care at the facility. Subjects will be evaluated monthly but primary differences in outcomes will compare baseline to 6 months.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Opioid Education |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2016-11-14
- Primary completion
- 2017-09-21
- Completion
- 2017-11-21
- First posted
- 2017-02-07
- Last updated
- 2017-12-11
Locations
4 sites across 1 country: United States
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03044522. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.