Intervention Development and Pilot Study to Prevent Untreated Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Opioid Use Disorder

University of California (UC), Riverside

Status and phase: Unknown; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Opioid-use Disorder

Treatments: Behavioral: Treatment Seeking Intervention for Pacific Islanders with Opioid Use Disorders

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04898478

R34DA049989

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will design and pilot/feasibility test a culturally grounded intervention to increase the treatment seeking of Pacific Islanders with opioid use disorders in formal services.

Full description

For the clinical trial arm of this pilot/feasibility study, the investigators will conduct a pilot/feasibility test of our conceptual model of culturally grounded intervention components with 20 Pacific Islander adults with experience with opioid use disorders, then conduct 2 focus groups per site to finalize the components and items for larger R01 pilot and randomized wait-list controlled testing.

Enrollment: 20 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Of Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian or part-Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian heritage.
• Live in Utah or Hawaii.
• For all lay Pacific Islander adult participants: must be over 18 years of age.
• Fluent (oral and reading) in English or Native Hawaiian.

For target Pacific Islander participants with OUDs, additional inclusion criteria is:

• Presence of active OUD, as screened via 8-item Rapid Opioid Dependence Scale.

Exclusion criteria

• Do not meet inclusion criteria,
• Are unwilling to participate,
• Fails to provide or retracts consent,
• Reside outside the target communities of Utah or Hawaii

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Treatment Seeking Intervention for Pacific Islanders with Opioid Use Disorders

Experimental group

Description:

This arm will consist of a behavioral intervention to increase treatment seeking among Pacific Islanders with opioid use disorders.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Treatment Seeking Intervention for Pacific Islanders with Opioid Use Disorders