Table 2.
Perceptions of the role of opioids in post-delivery care and addiction risk
| No. (%) of respondents | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total sample; n=224a | Non–opioid prescribers; n=86 | Opioid prescribers; n=138 | |||||||
| Perception | Agreeb | Neutral | Disagreeb | Agree | Neutral | Disagree | Agree | Neutral | Disagree |
| Opioid analgesia is an important aspect of post-delivery pain managementb | 84 (37) | 37 (17) | 102 (4) | 12 (14) | 10 (12) | 64 (74) | 72 (52) | 28 (20) | 38 (28) |
| I feel comfortable prescribing opioids when appropriate for pain post-deliveryb | 192 (86) | 19 (8) | 13 (6) | 63 (73) | 13 (15) | 10 (8) | 129 (94) | 6 (4) | 3 (2) |
| I believe that when opioids are prescribed to treat pain, it is unlikely that patients will develop opioid dependencyb | 108 (48) | 37 (16) | 79 (36) | 35 (41) | 15 (17) | 36 (42) | 73 (53) | 22 (16) | 43 (31) |
| I feel that an online tool on how to prescribe opioids postpartum would be helpful for my practiceb | 121 (54) | 66 (30) | 37 (16) | 40 (47) | 26 (30) | 20 (23) | 81 (59) | 40 (29) | 17 (12) |
a
Nineteen missing observations (including the eight people who did not indicate their opioid-prescribing patterns).
b
Level of agreement: collapsed from strongly agree, agree, neutral, disagree, and strongly disagree to agree (strongly agree + agree), neutral, and disagree (disagree + strongly disagree).