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Do you have chronic pain and are using both “around-the-clock” pain medication PLUS “as needed” narcotic or opioid medication for breakthrough pain?

We are currently recruiting Southern Vancouver Island participants for our study entitled “An Evaluation of the Impact of a Breakthrough Pain Action Plan on the Use of Breakthrough Medication in Chronic Non Cancer Pain”. You are invited to participate in our study entitled “An Evaluation of the Impact of a Breakthrough Pain Action Plan on the Use of Breakthrough Medication in Chronic Non Cancer Pain”. WHO is eligible?
• People who have had chronic pain for at least 6 months
• You must have a stable pain medication regimen but are taking on average 2 or more short-acting narcotic or opioid doses per day for breakthrough pain or pain flares

WHAT is involved?
• Participants will be divided into 2 groups: usual treatment and intervention which involves implementing a personalized and non-drug action plan
• You must be willing to attend 2 in-person interviews, record pain episodes and medication use for 3 one-week time periods, and complete 3 short questionnaires on your overall pain control

WHAT are the benefits of the study?
• The frequent use of opioids or narcotic for breakthrough pain may increase the risk of side effects, tolerance and addiction. This study is designed to evaluate the benefits of a non-drug action plan and how non-drug measures might decrease medication use. HOW to CONTACT our study team?
• ***To protect confidentiality please ONLY contact our study team by calling or emailing:
Phone: 1-877-370-8699 ext. 16882
Email: BTPActionPlanStudy@viha.ca

06/12/2017

This study is evaluating the impact of non-drug strategies to manage pain and help patients decrease the amount of medication they are taking, specifically opioid medications such as morphine or Dilaudid. The 2017 National Opioid Guidelines have been released and provides up to date assessment on the literature of risks of opioid therapy!! For a web-friendly version check out the following link:
http.//nationalpaincentre.mcmaster.ca/guidelines.html.

08/13/2016

"SPOR" - Strategy for Patient-Orientated Research
The Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR) has awarded $12.5 million to the Chronic Pain Network (CPN) to support patient-orientated research in chronic pain. Patients/families, healthcare professionals and researchers all have a role in supporting pain research. For more information click on this link: http://nationalpaincentre.mcmaster.ca/

01/31/2016

Chronic pain is best managed with a combination of drug and non-drug measures. Medications help reduce pain so people can function and focus on optimizing their physical and mental well-being. When choosing medications, we start with those medications that have shown benefit in well-conducted clinical studies. This study will contribute to that important literature in our efforts to find better ways of managing chronic pain. When trialing these medications it is always a balance between the benefits that the medications provide with the risks and associated side effects.
Check out the Pain BC website at https://www.painbc.ca/chronic-pain for some excellent resources to help manage pain.

01/25/2016

The research idea became a pilot study as part of an Island Pharmacy Residency research project. This provided the basis for a submission to a grant completion and we fortunately won a grant to conduct a full study. Breakthrough pain is a flare of pain that occurs in people with chronic pain on top of their baseline pain. The flare can occur for a reason, such as "overdoing it" or being too active and not pacing yourself. Sometimes pain flares for no reason. Doctors will often prescribe immediate release opioid medication to help deal with pain flares. Often times medication is the only strategy that people know to help manage their pain flares. There is concerns about frequent use of breakthrough medication leading to an increase in side effects, dependency, tolerance and poor function. Recent research has shown that non-drug measures such as pacing, imagery, distraction, and deep breathing can help decrease pain.

01/03/2016

Happy New Year - The "Birth Of the Breakthrough Pain (BTP) Action Plan Study"
"The Road to Whistler"
The idea for the study was born on a trip to Whistler to attend the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Pain Society in 2012! I was travelling with my colleagues from the Island Pain program and we were chatting about helping people with pain. I noted that many patients take extra medication, on top of their regularly scheduled medications yet are still struggling to manage their pain. We all agreed we needed more evidence or proof that strategies, other than medications, can help manage pain flares and pain in general. And then someone said it..."You should study that! You should see if the use of non-drug strategies to help with pain flares can decrease the number of extra medications that people take! The idea was then born and the rest is history! Stay tuned next week for how the research started out as a pilot study and developed into a fully developed randomized study!

11/28/2015

***To protect confidentiality please ONLY contact our study team by calling 1-877-370-8699 ext 16882 or emailing BTPActionPlanStudy@viha.ca

SOUTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND:
Do you have chronic pain and are using both “around-the-clock” pain medication PLUS “as needed” narcotic or opioid medication for breakthrough pain?

You are invited to participate in our study entitled “An Evaluation of the Impact of a Breakthrough Pain Action Plan on the Use of Breakthrough Medication in Chronic Non Cancer Pain”.

WHO is eligible?
• People who have had chronic pain for at least 6 months
• You must have a stable pain medication regimen and also be taking on average 2 or more short-acting narcotic or opioid doses per day for breakthrough pain or pain flares

WHAT is involved?
• Participants will be divided into 2 groups: usual treatment and intervention which will involve implementing a personalized non-drug action plan
• You must be willing to attend 2 in-person interviews, record pain episodes and medication use for 3 one-week time periods, and complete 3 short questionnaires on your overall pain control

WHAT are the benefits of the study?
• The frequent use of opioids or narcotic for breakthrough pain may increase the risk of side effects, tolerance and addiction. This study is designed to evaluate the benefits of a non-drug action plan and how non-drug measures might decrease medication use.

HOW to CONTACT our study team?
***To protect confidentiality please ONLY contact our study team by calling or emailing:
Phone: 1-877-370-8699 ext. 16882
Email: BTPActionPlanStudy@viha.ca

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