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Background: This bachelor thesis focuses on the topic of chronic pain in connection with long-term treatment with opioid analgesics and the associated risk of developing addiction and the possibility of screening this risk using the Opioid Risk Tool (ORT) in nursing. Objectives: The aim of the cross-sectional, quantitative study was to validate the ORT questionnaire in the Czech version, to evaluate its individual items by performing a factor analysis and assessing the impact of socio-demographic and clinical variables. Methods: A total of 411 patients on long-term treatment with opioid analgesics met inclusive and exclusive criteria and were included in the study. The patients were administered with an anamnestic questionnaire and the ORT, ET (Emotional Thermometers), COMM (Current Opioid Misuse Measure) and VAS (Visual Analogue Scale) questionnaires. The data were statistically processed using the determination of internal consistency, sensitivity, specificity, negative and positive predictive values, parametric and non-parametric tests, exploratory factor analysis and logistic regression. Results: A medium correlation was found between the ET and ORT questionnaires. Significant differences in selected socio-demographic and clinical variables between the opioid misuse group and the group without... |
