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Improving Communication About Pain and Opioids
Sponsor: University of California, Davis
Summary
The overall goal of this protocol is to pilot test a clinician training intervention that uses standardized patients (trained actors playing patient roles) as instructors who impart communication skills to primary care clinicians. This project will conduct a pilot clinical trial of the intervention developed by the primary investigator in order to evaluate intervention feasibility and generate data to plan a subsequent fully-powered, multisite trial. Primary care clinicians will be randomized to receive either the intervention or control; 48 patients (2 per clinician) will then be recorded during clinic visits with study clinicians and will provide data on post-visit perceptions and health outcomes. Study hypotheses are that visits with clinicians who receive the intervention (versus control) will be associated with more frequent use of targeted communication skills, lower probability of high-risk opioid prescribing, higher patient-reported agreement with treatment plan, and lower pain interference 2 months later.
Official title: A Clinician Training Intervention to Improve Pain-related Communication, Pain Management and Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
95
Start Date
2018-08-15
Completion Date
2019-12-31
Last Updated
2026-07-27
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Clinicians - Communication skills training
Intervention components include an 8-10 minute instructional video, a pocket card and pamphlet, and 2 standardized patient visits with role-play and feedback by the standardized patient
Clinician Control
Physician will review materials based on CDC opioid prescribing guidelines.
Patient seeing trained clinician
patient with a scheduled visit with a clinician who received the communication training.
Patient seeing control clinician
patient with a scheduled visit with a clinician who did not receive the communication training.
Locations (2)
University of California Davis Family Medicine Clinic
Sacramento, California, United States
University of California Davis Internal Medicine Clinic
Sacramento, California, United States