Training the Next Generation of Providers in Addiction Medicine

Rasyidi, Ernest; Wilkins, Jeffery N.; Danovitch, Itai

doi:10.1016/j.psc.2012.04.001

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“…These include unfavourable drug policies and laws, cost and availability of OST medicines, service providers' attitude and inadequate qualification and training on OST (Besson et al, 2014;Longman, Temple-Smith, Gilchrist, & Lintzeris, 2012;Marshall et al, 2012;Puskar et al, 2013;Scott et al, 2012;Shakeshaft, Nassirimanesh, Day, & Dolan, 2005). Unfortunately, the time allotted to the training on diagnosis and management of substance use disorder in undergraduate medical or other courses is very limited (Polydorou, Gunderson, & Levin, 2008;Rasyidi, Wilkins, & Danovitch, 2012). Hence, training programmes on specific treatment strategies such as OST are needed to equip service providers with requisite knowledge and skills to treat opioid dependence.…”

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Evaluation of a five-day training programme on opioid substitution therapy in India

Rao

Ambekar

Agrawal

et al. 2016

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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Aims: In India, opioid substitution therapy (OST) has been scaled-up in the recent years for HIV prevention among injecting drug users. This study aimed to assess the change in knowledge and attitude of the OST staff who underwent a five-day training programme on OST. Methods: Using a ''pre-test post-test'' design, routine data collected from 267 staff who underwent the OST training was analysed. The staff composition was: doctors (n ¼ 42, 15.7%), nurses (n ¼ 49, 18.4%), counsellors (n ¼ 45, 16.9%) and other programme staff (n ¼ 131, 49.1%). A 20-item, pen and paper questionnaire was administered right before the beginning of and immediately after the completion of the training. The questions were categorised into one of the five domains to assess whether changes in scores are confined to certain domains. Overall scores and scores in different domains were compared using paired-sample t-tests. The score difference in different cadres was compared using univariate general linear model with post-hoc comparisons. Findings: The difference between the total mean pre-test scores (9.24) (out of maximum possible score of 20) and post-test score (13.8) was significant. Comparison between various domains showed significant differences across all cadres. Doctors recorded significantly higher scores compared to other cadres. Conclusion: It is feasible to train different cadres of service providers together on OST in five days. The training was able to improve the participants' knowledge and their attitude towards injecting drug users.

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Evaluation of a five-day training programme on opioid substitution therapy in India

Rao

Ambekar

Agrawal

et al. 2016

Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy

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“…Finally, US schools of pharmacy have devoted little didactic or experiential time to developing student competency about SUDs [25][26][27]. Pharmacists play a pivotal role in educating patients about SUDs and medications, thus pharmacy students should receive more education on this topic [5,28,29].…”

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The Role of Pharmacists in the Opioid Epidemic

Reynolds

Causey

McKee

et al. 2017

North Carolina Medical Journal

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“…[7] Rasyidi and colleagues believe a significant hurdle to improving workforce training is the issue of broad-based stigma regarding alcoholism and other forms of abuse. Beliefs around substance use that breed stigma reach into numerous segments of the medical community [8,9] as well as nurses in practice, particularly those who practice includes pain management.…”

Section: Stigmatization Of Substance Abusementioning

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“Turning the tide” in Treatment of substance use: A nursing response

Worley

Delaney²

2017

JNEP

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Objective: To analyze science and practice surrounding nursing approaches to substance use disorders (SUDs) and make recommendations for the future. Methods: A review of literature and topics related to healthcare provider stigma, science surrounding SUDs, nursing approaches to SUDs in education and practice and evidence based treatment was conducted, analyzed and synthesized. Results: Stigma is embedded in nursing approach to SUDs, up to date information regarding SUDs is not widely disseminated or practiced in nursing. Conclusions: To reduce the impact of stigma and to bring nurses into the "turning the Tide" movement requires an understanding of how beliefs root stigma, building knowledge related to SUDs as an illness, and expansion of nurses' skill when intervening with individuals dealing with SUDs.

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Training the Next Generation of Providers in Addiction Medicine

Cited by 62 publications

References 29 publications

Evaluation of a five-day training programme on opioid substitution therapy in India

Evaluation of a five-day training programme on opioid substitution therapy in India

The Role of Pharmacists in the Opioid Epidemic

“Turning the tide” in Treatment of substance use: A nursing response

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