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ArticleCommunity mental health journal2020

Brief Training on Medication-Assisted Treatment Improves Community Mental Health Clinicians' Confidence and Readiness to Address Substance Use Disorders.

Theddeus Iheanacho, Tanner Bommersbach, Brian Fuehrlein, Bachaar Arnaout, Charles Dike

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Article in Community mental health journal, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 32% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Theddeus IheanachoYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. theddeus.iheanacho@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-7538-3611
Tanner BommersbachYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Brian FuehrleinYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Bachaar ArnaoutYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Charles DikeYale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Yale University · US

Funding

Mentoring Emerging Scientists for Careers in Substance Use ResearchR25DA035163 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI Carmen L Masson, Gideon St.Helen · 2014 to 2026
$4.6M
NIDA NIH HHS R25 DA035163
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the availability and effectiveness of medication-assisted treatment (MAT) for substance use disorders (SUDs), utilization of these medications remains suboptimal, especially in public sector settings. A key limitation is clinicians' reluctance to include MAT in their routine practice due, in part, to low confidence about managing SUDs and limited awareness of the disease model of addiction. This study evaluates the impact of a 1-day MAT training for community mental health clinicians using a 30-item pre- and post-training questionnaire. Of the 109 clinicians who attended the training, 107 completed the pre- and post-training questionnaires. Factor analysis of the questionnaire identified two domains: readiness to address SUDs among patients (factor 1) and understanding SUDs as diseases (factor 2). Post training, there was a significant change in both factor 1 (p = .00001) and factor 2 (p = .00003), indicating that a brief MAT training can increase clinicians' confidence and readiness to address SUDs and improve their understanding of the disease model of addiction.

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Mental HealthSubstance-Related DisordersCrisis InterventionHumansSurveys and QuestionnairesAddictionCommunity mental healthMedication-assisted treatmentSubstance use disorderTraining

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PMID32062717
PMCPMC7429311
OpenAlexW3006015100

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