Video-based, Patient-Focused Opioid Education in the Perioperative Period

University of Arkansas

Status: Completed

Conditions: Opioid Use; Chronic Pain Post-Procedural

Treatments: Other: Video

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03986866

228789

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a pilot study designed to assess the feasibility of using a novel, video-based opioid education tool for opioid naïve ambulatory surgery patients in the perioperative period.

Full description

Patients will be randomized to a video or no video prior to surgery then administered a phone questionnaire at post-op day 7, 30, and 90. The Arkansas Prescriptions Drug Monitoring Database will also be accessed for information on opioid prescription refills. The overall goal of the study is to evaluate the effect that video-based opioid education has on narcotic intake after outpatient surgery. The duration of the study will be approximately 3 months, plus a single 1-hour long focus group if desired by the patient.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Men and women 18 years or older
• Not chronically receiving opioid analgesics
• Patients who have not taken opioids 30 days pre-operatively
• Undergoing surgical procedure not requiring overnight hospital stay

Exclusion criteria

• Non-English speaking
• Legally deaf or blind
• On opiate contract
• Has taken oral narcotic in the past 30 days
• Unable to operate a telephone

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

No Video

No Intervention group

Description:

Patients are not shown the informational video on the safe usage of opioids.

Video

Experimental group

Description:

Patients are shown an informational video on the safe usage of opioids.

Treatment:

Other: Video