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

Opioid Use Clinical Trial

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

Status Withdrawn

Clinical Trial 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.

Clinical Trial 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. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Opioid Use

• NCT number: NCT04113252
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Wake Forest University Health Sciences
• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: May 2022
• Completion date: August 2022