NCT04113252

Impact of Coaching Patients on Pain Control With and Without Financial Incentivization

The Economy of Pain: A Pilot Study of the Impact of an Opioid Buyback Program

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Wake Forest University Health Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Opioids are commonly prescribed pain medications, but they can lead to addiction. The study team is trying to determine if providing someone with an incentive (money in the form of a Visa gift card) to use less pain medications will result in study participants actually using fewer pain tablets than allowed by their health care provider. The study team also wants to know if providing the incentive (the Visa gift card alone) works the same as the incentive (the Visa gift card) plus providing additional information about addiction and alternative pain management.

Detailed description

Study participants will receive the standard of care for pain management at discharge. If study participants were not hospitalized at discharge, the study team will begin that standard of pain management at the participant's first outpatient clinic visit. Study participants will be randomized to 1 of 3 groups. All groups will receive a gift card if participants return the completed medication diary to the study team. * Group 1 will complete a medication diary. Also, group 1 will be encouraged to return any unused tablets to the study clinic. * Group 2 will be asked to complete a medication diary. Group 2 will also have a 50/50 chance of receiving money for each unused opioid tablet returned to the study clinic. * Group 3 will be the same as group 2 except in addition, they will be given a coaching session about the use of pain medication and a simple way that may help participants use less opioid pain medication.

Conditions

• Opioid Use

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Possible Incentive for Tablet Return	Subjects who return completed diary will have the possibility to receive money for returned opioid tablets.
OTHER	Incentive for Completed Diary	Subjects who return completed diary will receive a gift card.
BEHAVIORAL	Coaching	Subjects will receive coaching prior to starting pain medication.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-05-01
• Primary completion: 2022-08-01
• Completion: 2022-08-01
• First posted: 2019-10-02
• Last updated: 2022-05-12