An observational study of safety and clinical outcome measures across patient groups in the United Kingdom Medical Cannabis Registry.
Author(s)
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of high-quality data on patient outcomes and safety after initiating treatment with cannabis-based medicinal products (CBMPs). The aim of this study was to assess the clinical outcomes and safety of CBMPs by analyzing patient-reported outcome measures and adverse events across a broad spectrum of chronic conditions. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: This study analyzed patients enrolled in the UK Medical Cannabis Registry. Participants completed the EQ-5D-5L to assess health-related quality of life, Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) questionnaire to measure anxiety severity, and the Single-item Sleep Quality Scale (SQS) to rate sleep quality at baseline and follow-up after 1, 3, 6, and 12 months. RESULTS: A total of 2833 participants met inclusion criteria. The EQ-5D-5L index value, GAD-7, and SQS all improved at each follow-up (p < 0.001). There was no difference in EQ-5D-5L index values between former or current illicit cannabis consumers and naïve patients (p > 0.050). Adverse events were reported by 474 (16.73%) participants. CONCLUSIONS: This study suggests that CBMPs are associated with an improvement in health-related quality of life in UK patients with chronic diseases. Treatment was tolerated well by most participants, but adverse events were more common in female and cannabis-naïve patients.
Date Issued
2023-03
Date Acceptance
2023-02-19
Citation
Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, 2023, 16 (3), pp.257-266
ISSN
1751-2433
Publisher
Taylor and Francis Group
Start Page
257
End Page
266
Journal / Book Title
Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology
Volume
16
Issue
3
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
Identifier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36848456
Subjects
Cannabis
Female
Hallucinogens
Humans
Medical Marijuana
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
Quality of Life
Surveys and Questionnaires
United Kingdom
cannabidiol
Cannabis-based medicinal products
CBMPs
medical cannabis
tetrahydrocannabi
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
England
Date Publish Online
2023-02-27