NCT04219397

Investigating Interventions to Reduce Residual Opioids in the Home Following Legitimate Opioid Prescribing in Children.

Investigating the Impact of Formal Interventions on Reducing Residual Opioids in the Home Following Legitimate Prescribing for Acute Post-surgical Pain in Pediatric Patients.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 83 (actual)
• Sponsor: Indiana University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 12 Years – 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The overall objective of this study is to evaluate strategies to reduce unused opioids prescribed for pediatric acute post-surgical pain management.

Detailed description

Prescription opioids are abused by an estimated 12.5 million Americans, and accidental opioid overdose is the leading cause of injury death in the US. Many of these drugs originate from leftover prescription opioids related to postoperative overprescribing, lack of proper disposal, and unsafe home storage. Governmental guidelines indicate that leftover prescription opioids should be preferentially returned to a drug take back site; however, many people do not utilize these programs due to travel distance, lack of transportation, or other factors. The aims are to quantify the amount of unused opioids in the home following painful pediatric surgical procedures, investigate the impact of formal interventions on disposal of residual opioids in the home following these surgeries, and to identify current behaviors of adolescents and their family members in the handling of unused prescribed opioids.

Conditions

• Opioid Use, Unspecified

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medication take back	Patients will be provided with formal education about medication take back programs for left-over prescription medications. They will be provided with directions to the closest medication take back facility to their home, and directions to the closet medication take back facility near their post-operative clinic site, and instructed to dispose of any left-over oxycodone medication (at completion of analgesic therapy) through participating in medication take back.
OTHER	Medication home disposal	Patients and their families will be provided with formal education about how to use the medication home disposal kit: Dispose Rx, provided with a Dispose Rx home disposal kit, and instructed to dispose of any left-over oxycodone prescription medications with this kit following completion of analgesic therapy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-01-23
• Primary completion: 2023-01-03
• Completion: 2023-01-03
• First posted: 2020-01-07
• Last updated: 2024-02-15

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States