Behavioral Interventions for Active Duty Service Members and Veterans With Chronic Pain

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Treatments

Behavioral: Support Group

Behavioral: Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement (MORE)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT02935621

00091781

Details and patient eligibility

About

The central aim of this proposed study is to test a multimodal, mindfulness-oriented intervention designed to disrupt the risk chain leading to prescription opioid dose escalation, opioid misuse and opioid addiction, which are mounting threats to active duty service members and Veterans with chronic pain conditions, who may develop disordered opioid use as a consequence of long-term opioid pharmacotherapy.

Enrollment

230 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 100 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

men/women ≥18 years of age
ability to understand and speak the English language
current chronic pain diagnosis (including but not limited to ICD-9 diagnoses 338.0, 338.2xx, 338.
current use of prescription opioids for >3 consecutive months.

Exclusion criteria

Mindfulness training experience (participation in MBSR/MBRP)
opioid withdrawal evidenced by score ≥13 on the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale
current cancer diagnosis
having a psychiatric or medical condition that precludes the ability to provide informed consent or participation in outpatient treatment (e.g., psychosis, mania, acute intoxication