Behavioral Interventions for Chronic Pain and Opioid-Related Problems

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: Supportive Counseling; Behavioral: Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03298269

1618

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement versus a social support group (supportive counseling) intervention for chronic pain patients receiving long-term opioid pharmacotherapy for pain.

Enrollment: 95 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 100 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18-60+
• Current chronic pain condition
• Current use of prescription opioid agonist or mixed agonist-antagonist analgesics for >90 days

Exclusion criteria

• Prior experience with Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy, or Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention
• Active suicidality, schizophrenia, psychotic disorder, and/or severe substance dependence (other than opioid dependence)
• Opioid misuse as determined by Current Opioid Misuse Measure

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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95 participants in 2 patient groups

Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Mindfulness-Oriented Recovery Enhancement

Supportive Counseling

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Supportive Counseling