Improving Communication About Pain and Opioids
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Official title
A Clinician Training Intervention to Improve Pain-related Communication, Pain Management and Opioid Prescribing in Primary Care
Brief summary
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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.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT03629197
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 95 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Interventions
- Clinicians - Communication skills training Behavioral
- Clinician Control Other
- Patient seeing trained clinician Behavioral
- Patient seeing control clinician Other
Behavioral · Other
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Healthy volunteers not accepted
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Aug 14, 2018
- Primary completion
- Nov 4, 2019
- Completion
- Dec 30, 2019
- Last update posted
- Jul 26, 2026
2018 – 2019
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 2
- U.S. states
- 1
- U.S. cities
- 1
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of California Davis Family Medicine Clinic | Sacramento | California | 95817 | — |
| University of California Davis Internal Medicine Clinic | Sacramento | California | 95817 | — |
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- Last update posted Jul 26, 2026 · Synced Sep 5, 2026
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