End User Needs and Perspectives for a Digital Opioid Safety Tool in Adolescents and Young Adults With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Qualitative Human-Centered Design Study.

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This study interviewed adolescents and young adults (AYA) with IBD and IBD-focused clinicians to identify priorities for designing a digital opioid safety tool.

Participants highlighted needs that span patients and clinicians (integration into multidisciplinary chronic care, support for transitions to independence, recognition of individual differences), patient-level needs (routine assessment of lived pain experience, setting expectations about pain management, linking to nonopioid alternatives), and

clinician/system-level needs (tracking pain/opioid care received outside the clinic, closing information and resource gaps, coordinating safety across teams).

The research used semistructured interviews and a co-design workshop with 7 AYA patients and 13 clinicians; findings are presented as themes to guide future tool design, prototyping, and testing. This brief summarizes the abstract-level report provided by the journal and does not reflect review of a full paper beyond the supplied abstract.