- Title
- Training primary care providers in opioid deprescribing and chronic pain management based on local guidance: a pre-post study of attitude change
- Creator
- White, Ruth; Hayes, Chris; Boyes, Allison W.; Fitzgerald, Sandra; Rajappa, Hema; Paul, Christine L.
- Relation
- NHMRC.1073317 http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1073317
- Relation
- Health Education in Practice: Journal of Research for Professional Learning Vol. 2, Issue 1
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.33966/hepj.2.1.13209
- Publisher
- Health Education & Training Institute
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2019
- Description
- Background: Local chronic non-cancer pain guidance recommends that general practitioners should consider opioid deprescribing and referral to multidisciplinary healthcare providers for behaviourally based treatments. We designed a training package called AIMM (Assess, Inform, Manage and Monitor) to reinforce this stewardship. Aim: To identify whether participation in AIMM training effectively aligned clinicians’ attitudes with local guidance for treating chronic non-cancer pain. Design and setting: In 2014–15, the AIMM training was tested using a pre–post-test non-randomised design at two sites in NSW, Australia. The primary outcome measure was an 11-item, study-specific, pain attitude questionnaire (PAQ). Method: Step one of AIMM training involved online completion of the PAQ and review of a specialist pain website. Step two involved attendance at two face-to-face, two-hour interactive workshops led by pain experts who addressed opioid deprescribing and switching to broader care. A repeat PAQ survey was completed at the conclusion of the second workshop. Results: Nineteen participants attended the workshops, including general practitioners (n = 7), nurses (n = 5), exercise physiologists (n = 2), a dietitian (n = 1), community pharmacists (n = 2) and psychologists (n = 2). Significant shifts in six attitudes occurred, including prescribing less pain medication, greater emphasis on social reconnection, increasing planned activity and adopting anti-inflammatory nutrition (p < .05). Responses to the item regarding expectations of a positive recovery was not aligned with local guidance and no significant attitudinal change was found. Four other attitudes were aligned with local guidance at baseline and did not change during the study. Conclusions: Online information and face-to-face training can achieve a change in healthcare provider attitudes towards non-pharmacological treatment of chronic non-cancer pain. Further work is needed to assess whether attitudinal changes are maintained and translate into behavioural change.
- Subject
- attitudes; chronic pain; deprescribing; medical education; opioids; primary healthcare
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1415851
- Identifier
- uon:36961
- Identifier
- ISSN:2209-3974
- Rights
- CC NC SA. Copyright is held by the authors with the first publication rights granted to the journal. Conditions of sharing are defined by the Creative Commons License Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
- Language
- eng
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