A review of qualitative research in <scp>D</scp>rug and <scp>A</scp>lcohol <scp>R</scp>eview

Introduction Substance use is a public health issue with a greater burden in rural areas. Barriers to accessing services are exacerbated for rural substance users, with confidentiality concerns, longer travel distances, workforce issues and limited availability of services. This paper presents results from a study exploring substance users' experiences of accessing services in Western Australia's South West. Methods This qualitative study was informed by phenomenology, and drew from social determinants and socio‐ecological theories. Data were collected through 22 semi‐structured telephone interviews with current and past substance users residing in the South West. Interviews were audio‐recorded and transcripts were subjected to thematic analysis. Results Two themes were identified: readiness to engage as a three‐way street; and building an ecosystem of recovery networks. Effective engagement with services required multi‐level readiness. Individual readiness was strongly influenced by the social environment, while service readiness required trustworthiness and responsiveness. A number of local access barriers were identified that hindered broader system readiness. Participants experienced recovery as on‐going and require an ecosystem of support with peer support at the centre and a network of healthy relationships established through meaningful connections. Discussion and Conclusions An effective ecosystem of support for alcohol and other drugs users in the South West should include expanded access to health, community and welfare services, with an emphasis on peer‐led support programs, and strong cross‐sector collaboration to mitigate the access barriers operating at the broader community level. Lessons from our study can inform the development of rural ecosystems of support for alcohol and other drugs users.

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“…This paper follows the COREQ checklist [36] and the Drug and Alcohol Review criteria [37] for reporting qualitative research.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

A rural ecosystem of recovery: Lessons from substance users' experiences of accessing services in Western Australia's South West

Cuesta-Briand

Taran

Coleman

2022

Drug and Alcohol Review

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“…According to previous findings, common topics of qualitative research in the "Western World" 1 are social issues, gender, ethnicity (Marchel & Owens 2007), and sexual identity (Peel, Clarke & Drescher 2007). Common fields include education, cultural psychology (Swartz & Rohleder 2017), counseling (Marchel & Owens 2007), and drug abuse (Olsen et al 2015). However, qualitative studies seem to appear in every field of psychology (Stainton-Rogers & Willig 2017).…”

Section: Qualitative Psychology In Europementioning

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Mapping qualitative research in psychology across five Central-Eastern European countries: Contemporary trends: A paradigm analysis

Kovács

Kiss

Kassai

et al. 2019

Qualitative Research in Psychology

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This study describes the current state of qualitative psychology and gives an overview of the philosophical paradigms used in English language qualitative psychology studies from the post-socialist countries of Central Eastern Europe. For political and historical reasons, academic life of this area is unique, providing a special field for investigation. This study explored the following research questions: Which philosophical paradigms are used in qualitative psychology? What kind of methods are applied? What kind of fields in psychology are examined? Thirty-five articles were analysed from five countries. Articles were examined through their paradigmatic considerations, using a dichotomous qualitative quasi-testing to distinguish positivist/postpositivist from interpretive/constructivist paradigms. We examined the methodology and content of various articles and analysed the keywords to explore common themes of interest. A dominant constructivist philosophical approach was present. Pure positivist articles were found to be quite rare, but mixed paradigms seemed to be frequent. Most of the methodologies were not specified. In terms of interest, the most commonly examined field was found to be social psychology. In the postsocialist era, mixed paradigms were conspicuous since culture and tradition might have had a significant effect on ontology, epistemology, and knowledge of the researcher.

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“…On one hand, standardised instruments exist that aim to capture the five standard use motives in a valid manner in form of structured questionnaires [6,39,40]. On the other hand, much research conducted with substance users is qualitative of nature [41,42], which often entails using forms of assessment providing more opportunities for subjects to speak freely. Structured assessments provide a particular and specific quantitative framework for participants in which they will situate their answers [43], which is related to problems like response bias [44].…”

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Motives for the use of serotonergic psychedelics: A systematic review

Basedow¹,

Kuitunen‐Paul

2022

Drug and Alcohol Review

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Issues: Serotonergic psychedelics (SP) are psychoactive substances that produce unique sets of subjective effects, such as hallucinatory experiences. This systematic review is the first to summarise which motives for SP use have been assessed in medical, psychological, sociological and ethnological research across different types of SPs and across cultural backgrounds. Findings on use motives can be especially important in the context of harm reduction.Approach: We searched academic databases (Medline, Web of Science and Embase) and included publications if they were peer-reviewed and written in English, German, Spanish or Dutch. We analysed which type of motives were reported, comparing motives from quantitative and qualitative reports, and investigating associations between motives and year of publication, specific SPs and specific participant populations.

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A review of qualitative research in Drug and Alcohol Review

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A rural ecosystem of recovery: Lessons from substance users' experiences of accessing services in Western Australia's South West

A rural ecosystem of recovery: Lessons from substance users' experiences of accessing services in Western Australia's South West

Mapping qualitative research in psychology across five Central-Eastern European countries: Contemporary trends: A paradigm analysis

Motives for the use of serotonergic psychedelics: A systematic review

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