To take or not to take: the association between perceived addiction risk, expected analgesic response and likelihood of trying novel pain relievers in self-identified chronic pain patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Probability discounting refers to the effect of outcome uncertainty on decision making. Using probability discounting, we examined the degree to which self-identified chronic pain patients (CPP) were likely to try a novel analgesic medication given increasing addiction risk. We postulated that propensity for opioid misuse, trait impulsivity and previous opioid experience would be associated positively with likelihood of risky medication use.

Design

This cross-sectional on-line study determined state/trait associations with addiction-related medication decisions in CPP.

Setting

US-based CPP participated via Amazon Mechanical Turk; data were collected and analyzed in Baltimore, Maryland.

Participants

A total of 263 CPP (70.6% female) participa

SUBMITTER: Tompkins DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5725253 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature