Table 1.
Comparing characteristics of chronic opioid therapy patients by whether or not have the desire to stop or cut down opioid use.
| Variable | Have desire to cut down |
No desire to cut down |
p-value | All persons |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of patients | 795 (43.3%) | 942 (56.7%) | 1737 | |
| Female | 64.6% | 61.1% | 0.40 | 62.6% |
| Mean age (Se) | 53.9 (0.6) | 57.5 (0.6) | <.0001 | 55.9 (0.4) |
| BMI (Se) | 30.3 (0.4) | 31.1 (0.5) | 0.33 | 30.8 (0.3) |
| Some college education | 59.8% | 61.1% | 0.73 | 60.5% |
| Mean days with pain in prior 6 months (Se) | 167.4 (1.7) | 167.8 (1.9) | 0.84 | 167.6 (1.3) |
| Average pain intensity (SE) | 5.8 (0.10) | 5.8 (0.09) | 0.48 | 5.8 (0.07) |
| Using opioids for more than one pain condition | 64.9% | 64.7% | 0.54 | 64.8% |
| Opioids very/extremely helpful | 62.7% | 64.1% | 63.5% | |
| Predominate use of long-acting opioids in the prior 3 months | 32.3% | 30.2% | 0.32 | 31.1% |
| Ever had drug or alcohol problem | 22.6% | 21.1% | 0.92 | 21.7% |
| Mean Average daily dose in past 90 days | 93.4 (5.8) | 69.2 (3.02) | 0.03 | 79.7 (2.7) |
| Mean days supply in past 90 days | 112.5 (2.2) | 105.6 (1.8) | 0.1 | 108.6 (1.3) |
| Mean Charlson score | 1.1 (0.09) | 1.3 (0.09) | 0.71 | 1.2 (0.06) |
| Mean Pain Impact score | 7.3 (0.16) | 6.5 (0.16) | 0.003 | 6.8 (0.12) |
| Mean # times per day took opioids last 2 weeks | 3.1 (0.07) | 2.8 (0.06) | 0.07 | 2.9 (0.05) |
p-value controls for age, sex and health plan site
N is unweighted; all percents are weighted