Development of a Brief Patient-Administered Screening Tool for Prescription Opioid Dependence for Primary Care Settings.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To develop a short, patient-administered screening tool that will allow for earlier assessment of prescription opioid dependence (often referred to as addiction) in primary care settings.

Design and setting

Cross-sectional analysis (N = 1,134) from the two-year time point of the Pain and Opioids IN Treatment (POINT) cohort was used in the scale development.

Subjects

Participants who completed two-year interviews in the POINT study, a prospective cohort study that followed people with chronic noncancer pain over a five-year period, and who were prescribed strong opioids for a minimum of six weeks at baseline.

Methods

An advisory committee provided advice on wording and content for screening in primary care settings. Univariate logistic regression ident

SUBMITTER: Nielsen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8204889 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature