HOPE Consortium Trial to Reduce Pain and Opioid Use in Hemodialysis

The PCST intervention will focus primarily on reducing pain interference in daily activities and improving pain self-management skills. For participants with recent or current opioid use, the PCST intervention will include motivational interviewing aimed at reducing opioid use. During Weeks 1 - 12 the PCST will be delivered by coaches via telehealth (video). During Weeks 13 - 24, the Interactive Voice Response (IVR) will be delivered via telephone. The telehealth component will consist of weekly sessions, each lasting 45-50 minutes. The IVR content, intended to enhance and sustain the effects of the coach-led session, will be delivered with daily telephone interactions, each lasting approximately 5 minutes. Both components of the intervention will be available in English and Spanish.

At Week 24, participants who meet the eligibility criteria for the buprenorphine intervention will be encouraged to switch from their current full agonist opioid medication to the partial opioid agonist, buprenorphine. Participants who switch to Buprenorphine will be provided with individualized buprenorphine treatment recommendations. Individualized buprenorphine treatment recommendations will be made by the study buprenorphine physician based on current opioid use and other relevant factors. Participants who do not meet the Phase 2 eligibility criteria will not be offered buprenorphine. All participants will continue to be followed from Week 24 until Week 36 for ascertainment of pain, opioid use, and other outcomes to address durability of the effects of PCST, and, for those who switch to buprenorphine, to assess buprenorphine acceptability, tolerability, and efficacy as exploratory outcomes.