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Opiophobia in Adults With Advanced Cancer

Description

To explore the barriers and fears related to use of opioids among a population of adult outpatients with advanced cancer who continue to experience pain after receiving a prescription for opioid analgesia and hypothesized associations among opiophobia, anxiety, depression, pain intensity, pain interference, and opioid medication adherence.

Conditions

Cancer
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Cancer

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Study Details

Study overview

To explore the barriers and fears related to use of opioids among a population of adult outpatients with advanced cancer who continue to experience pain after receiving a prescription for opioid analgesia and hypothesized associations among opiophobia, anxiety, depression, pain intensity, pain interference, and opioid medication adherence.

Opiophobia in Adults With Advanced Cancer

Opiophobia in Adults With Advanced Cancer

Condition
Cancer
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Houston

The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, United States, 77030

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • 1. Adult patients with advanced cancer (defined as cancer that is unlikely to be cured and is locally advanced or distantly metastasized
  • 2. Pain is the documented reason for the Supportive Care consultation
  • 3. Have a prescription for an opioid analgesic
  • 4. Able to read, speak, and consent in English.
  • 1. Age less than 18 years
  • 2. Do not have a prescription for an opioid analgesic
  • 3. Individuals for whom there is documentation of inability to provide consent in the medical record
  • 4. Women who are pregnant
  • 5. Patients with a substance use disorder (including alcohol use disorder and excluding tobacco use disorder) documented in the electronic health record under History of Present Illness or in the Medical History.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center,

Eileen Hacker, PHD, RN, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

Study Record Dates

2031-01-01