Adherence to Opioids in Oncology Out Patients

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cancer Out Patients With Opioids

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03247504

69HCL17_0436

Details and patient eligibility

About

Cancer pain is undertreated despite a good access to opioids in France. Although many factors are involved, the barriers related to the patient (and his family) are often reported .the reluctance of the patient or the family to take the prescribed medication is linked to misconceptions about the opioids , cultural barriers; or the lack of explanations provided by the physician. Some patients can have undiagnosed slight cognitive impairment .The situation is now more complicated as appear on the market the new form of opioids for the cancer breakthrough pain drug, adding one more opioid formulation in the prescription. The goal of the study is to measure the adherence to opioids in cancer out patients and the associated factors.

Enrollment: 300 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Cancer out patients with opioids by mouth prescription
• Prescription than more than 8 days

Exclusion criteria

• Patient not at home, but in nursing home or other setting were the treatment are given by medical staff
• Patient unable to answer at the questionnaire
• Opoids given Intravenous or other way than mouth.