Pain Catastrophizing and Prescription Opioid Craving
TerminatedNot applicableNCT04097743
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
Adherence to prescription opioid and opioid tapering as indicated are critical for safe chronic opioid therapy for chronic pain, but this can be difficult for patients experiencing prescription opioid craving. Because pain catastrophizing is proposed as a possible treatment target by our and others' preliminary results, the proposed study aims to determine whether pain catastrophizing is a treatment target to reduce prescription opioid craving and to investigate whether negative affect and stress hormones are potential mediators. The findings from the current study will inform whether a psychology intervention to lower pain catastrophizing will reduce opioid craving, and whether psychological and physical distress as well as cognitive function will be potential mediators of the treatment effect.
Study details
- Official title
- Effect of Pain Catastrophizing on Prescription Opioid Craving
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Coping Statement
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
- Collaborators
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Start date
- 2021-06-29
- Primary completion
- 2024-12-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * At least 18 years * Chronic pain ( \> 3months) * Prescription opioid use (\>3 months) Exclusion Criteria: * Current diagnosis of cancer * Concurrent psychological therapy * Other severe psychiatric conditions (schizophrenia, delusional disorder, psychotic disorder, dissociative disorder, and active suicidality) * Any skin conditions on the hand (pain testing site) * Non-English speaker * No access to email or smart phone
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04097743