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| Name | Class |
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| University of Eastern Finland | OTHER |
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The purpose of this study is to improve unsupervised dosing of opioid substitution medications. The aim of the study is to examine whether electronic compliance monitoring provides some advantages to patients'treatment and what kind of patients especially benefit from monitoring. We would also like to know if electronic compliance monitoring can prevent the abuse/diversion of medications and how implementing this method to wider treatment facilities succeeds.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Electronic compliance monitoring | Experimental | Suboxone treated patients in Kuopio city area get their unsupervised Suboxone doses in electronic compliance monitoring devices during the 4 month study. |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Compliance monitoring with electronic device | Device | Patients get all their unsupervised substitution medication doses in electronic monitoring devices during the study. Daily dose of the drug is possible to get from the device in given time points and in the meantime device is locked. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| The effectiveness of treatment (Treatment Outcomes Profile TOP) | Structured interview designed to measure the effectiveness and outcomes of opioid substitution treatment. | Every two months. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Patients´opinions about the treatment. | Questionnaire designed for this study to explore patients' opinions on the compliance monitoring and it's effect on their treatment and abuse and/or diversion of medications. | Once when the study phase ends (after four months). |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Kuopio University Hospital | Kuopio | 70211 | Finland |
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| ID | Term |
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| D009293 | Opioid-Related Disorders |
| ID | Term |
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| D000079524 | Narcotic-Related Disorders |
| D019966 | Substance-Related Disorders |
| D064419 | Chemically-Induced Disorders |
| D001523 | Mental Disorders |
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