Cited by 20Opioid Use Disorder TreatmentSubstance Abuse Treatment and OutcomesHIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk

Study design to evaluate a group-based therapy for support persons of adults on buprenorphine/naloxone

Open access
Osilla, Karen Chan, Becker, Kirsten, Ecola, Liisa, Hurley, Brian, Manuel, Jennifer K., Ober, Allison, Paddock, Susan M., Watkins, Katherine E.·2020·Addiction Science & Clinical Practice

Abstract

Background: Opioid use disorders (OUDs) have devastating effects on individuals, families, and communities. While medication treatments for OUD save lives and are increasingly utilized, rates of treatment dropout are very high. In addition, most existing medication treatments for OUD may often neglect the impact of untreated OUD on relationships and ignore the potential role support persons (SPs) could have on encouraging long-term recovery, which can also impact patient treatment retention. Methods/design: The current study adapts Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) for use with SPs (family member, spouse or friend) of patients using buprenorphine/naloxone (buprenorphine) in an outpatient community clinic setting. The study will evaluate whether the adapted intervention, also known as integrating support persons into recovery (INSPIRE), is effective in increasing patient retention on buprenorphine when compared to usual care. We will utilize a two-group randomized design where patients starting or restarting buprenorphine will be screened for support person status and recruited with their support person if eligible. Support persons will be randomly assigned to the INSPIRE intervention, which will consist of 10 rolling group sessions led by two facilitators. Patients and SPs will each be assessed at baseline, 3 months post-baseline, and 12 months post-baseline. Patient electronic medical record data will be collected at six and 12 months post-baseline. We will examine mechanisms of intervention effectiveness and also conduct pre/post-implementation surveys with clinic staff to assess issues that would affect sustainability. Discussion: Incorporating the patient’s support system may be an important way to improve treatment retention in medication treatments for OUD. If SPs can serve to support patient retention, this study would significantly advance work to help support the delivery of effective treatments that prevent the devastating consequences associated with OUD. Trial registration This study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT04239235. Registered 27 January 2020,https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04239235.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1186/s13722-020-00199-2

Cites

64 of 64 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • The INSPIRE developers are working with primary care systems and funding agency representatives to evaluate its clinical and economic impacts in a pragmatic clinical trial.

    “The INSPIRE developers are working with primary care systems and funding agency representatives to evaluate its clinical and economic impacts in a pragmatic clinical trial [55].”

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 1

  1. [4]Secretary Price Announces HHS strategy for fighting opioid crisis [press release]. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. 2017.

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Osilla, K. C., Becker, K., Ecola, L., Hurley, B., Manuel, J. K., Ober, A., Paddock, S. M., & Watkins, K. E.
Affiliations
  • RAND Corporation (US)
  • Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (US)
  • University of California, San Francisco (US)
  • University of Chicago (US)
Corresponding author
Osilla, Karen Chan
Venue
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Published
2020-07-11
Volume
15
Issue
1
Pages
25-25
ISSN
  • 1940-0632 (ISSN-L)
  • 1940-0640
OpenAlex
W3040911991
Cited by
20
References
64
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 7 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 1
FWCI
1.31
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Addiction Science & Clinical Practice (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
Funders
Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (OBOT-2018C2-12876)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk
Keywords
opioid use disorder, buprenorphine/naloxone, support persons, family involvement, Community Reinforcement and Family Training, treatment retention, medication-assisted treatment, group therapy, outpatient addiction treatment
MeSH terms
Buprenorphine, Naloxone Drug Combination, Adult, Analgesics, Opioid, Buprenorphine, California, Community Health Centers, Family, Female, Humans, Opioid-Related Disorders, Psychotherapy, Group, Social Support

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review