Family Experience of Home Opioid Use After Pediatric Surgery

The Hospital for Sick Children

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain Management

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03562013

1000060801

Details and patient eligibility

About

A systematic review examining outpatient opioid use identified only three pediatric studies published between 2015 and 2016. Of these three, two studies had a short-term follow up with patients at three days after discharge; moreover, these three studies were limited by focusing on one surgical population, restriction of data to 0-12 yr old participants, and the other being a brief report. As a result, there are no pediatric studies that have examined opioid use amongst 0-18 yr olds, across multiple surgery types, and beyond 3 days after discharge.

Full description

This study is being done to learn how long children (0-18 yrs) needed to use the prescribed opioid medication for and how families can be better prepared to provide adequate and safe pain management at home. Follow up will take place 28 days after discharge from the hospital.

Enrollment: 89 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 18 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Families are filling a prescription for opioid medications at Shoppers Drug Mart at The Hospital for Sick Children
• Parent has strong command of the English language (i.e., no interpreter required)

Exclusion criteria

• Child has used opioid medication at home within 6 months before the date of their surgical procedure
• Child has history of chronic pain
• Child is being discharged to a rehabilitation facility anticipated