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Purpose <p>To explore healthcare providers’ and community-level stakeholders’ perceptions of opioid pain management among cancer survivors with a history of opioid use disorder living with cancer-related pain.</p> Methods <p>Using a qualitative methodological approach<b>,</b> healthcare providers and community-level stakeholders providing care to cancer survivors with an opioid use disorder (OUD) were recruited by purposive sampling methods. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews that was subsequently transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis.</p> Results <p>Participants were healthcare providers (<i>n</i> = 24) and community-level stakeholders (<i>n</i> = 6). Four themes emerged from the data: (1) cancer survivors with an OUD deserve the right to adequate pain management, (2) healthcare professionals are uncomfortable providing pain management for cancer patients with OUD, (3) cancer survivors with cancer-related pain may suffer unnecessary pain for fear of violating their sobriety, and (4) perspectives on aberrant opioid-related behaviors among cancer survivors.</p> Conclusion <p>As opioid use disorder is becoming an increasing and co-present condition among patients with cancer, this study contributes important implications for improving care by understanding the views of healthcare providers and community-level stakeholders.</p>

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“They still deserve for their pain to be controlled”: healthcare providers’ and community-level stakeholders’ perceptions of pain management among cancer survivors with an opioid use disorder

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    2025年5月28日

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  • Melody N. Chavez,
  • Hannah M. Thomas,
  • Paige Lake,
  • Ana Gutierrez,
  • Khary K. Rigg,
  • Victoria K. Marshall,
  • Barbara Lubrano,
  • Sahana Rajasekhara,
  • Dinorah Martinez Tyson

摘要

Purpose

To explore healthcare providers’ and community-level stakeholders’ perceptions of opioid pain management among cancer survivors with a history of opioid use disorder living with cancer-related pain.

Methods

Using a qualitative methodological approach, healthcare providers and community-level stakeholders providing care to cancer survivors with an opioid use disorder (OUD) were recruited by purposive sampling methods. Data was collected through semi-structured interviews that was subsequently transcribed verbatim and analyzed using thematic analysis.

Results

Participants were healthcare providers (n = 24) and community-level stakeholders (n = 6). Four themes emerged from the data: (1) cancer survivors with an OUD deserve the right to adequate pain management, (2) healthcare professionals are uncomfortable providing pain management for cancer patients with OUD, (3) cancer survivors with cancer-related pain may suffer unnecessary pain for fear of violating their sobriety, and (4) perspectives on aberrant opioid-related behaviors among cancer survivors.

Conclusion

As opioid use disorder is becoming an increasing and co-present condition among patients with cancer, this study contributes important implications for improving care by understanding the views of healthcare providers and community-level stakeholders.