Physical Therapists Identifying Patients With Opioid Misuse

Utah System of Higher Education (USHE)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain; Opioid Misuse

Treatments: Behavioral: Training Arm

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05497154

3394

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to develop and operationalize key procedures for physical therapists (n = 12) to address patients who are at risk for or have opioid misuse (OM). The investigators will train physical therapists in procedures to: 1) engage patients at risk for OM in conversations about appropriate opioid use, 2) screen and 3) assess these patients for OM and, 4) refer patients for further treatment if OM is suspected. The investigators will employ a modified Delphi approach to iteratively refine and operationalize the procedures and to arrive at a finalized procedure manual followed by an evaluation of the implementation of these procedures.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to develop and operationalize key procedures for physical therapists (n = 12) to address patients who are at risk for or have OM. The investigators will train physical therapists in procedures to: 1) engage patients at risk for OM in conversations about appropriate opioid use, 2) screen and 3) assess these patients for OM and, 4) refer patients for further treatment if OM is suspected. The investigators will employ a modified Delphi approach to iteratively refine and operationalize the procedures and to arrive at a finalized procedure manual followed by an evaluation of the implementation of these procedures. Approximately 4 months following the development of the manual and the distribution of the finalized manual, the investigators will conduct semi-structured interviews to determine the barriers and facilitators to implementing the procedures learned in the training.

Our aims are:

1. Qualitatively evaluate physical therapists' perceptions and recommendations for implementing OM procedures.
2. Evaluate the implementation of the manualized OM procedures.

Enrollment: 12 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• University of Utah physical therapists with at least 0.5 full-time equivalent
• Self report managing patients with musculoskeletal pain

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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12 participants in 1 patient group

Training Arm

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Training Arm