Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03400384
Trial Applying Policy to Eliminate or Reduce Inappropriate Narcotics in the General-population
Using Policy to Reduce Opioids by Educating and Empowering Patients With Chronic Non-cancer Pain: The TAPERING Randomised Trial.
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 4,255 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
To assess the effectiveness of a government-led population-based opioid intervention on discontinuation of opioid medication in community-dwelling adults with chronic non-cancer pain.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Direct-to-consumer educational brochure | The intervention arm will be mailed an evidence-based, theory-driven direct-to-consumer educational brochure, highlighting the potential benefits and harms of opioids when used to treat chronic non-cancer pain. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-07-17
- Primary completion
- 2019-04-30
- Completion
- 2019-12-31
- First posted
- 2018-01-17
- Last updated
- 2020-09-29
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Canada
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03400384. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.