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ReviewJournal of general internal medicine2022

Assessing Student Readiness to Work with People Who Use Drugs: Development of a Multi-disciplinary Addiction Educational Survey.

Patrick C M Brown, Dana A Button, Danika Bethune, Emily Kelly, Hannah R Tierney, Rahee M Nerurkar, Christina Nicolaidis, Rebecca A Harrison, Ximena A Levander

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Review in Journal of general internal medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 5 institutions in 1 country.

Patrick C M Brown *School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Dana A Button *School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA. buttond@ohsu.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8373-1444
Danika BethuneSchool of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Emily KellySchool of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Hannah R TierneySchool of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
Rahee M NerurkarSchool of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Christina NicolaidisSchool of Social Work, Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA.
Rebecca A HarrisonDivision of Hospital Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Ximena A LevanderDivision of General Internal Medicine & Geriatrics, Addiction Medicine Section, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA.
Oregon Health & Science University · USUniversity of California, San Francisco · USUniversity of Washington · USOregon Health and Science University Hospital · USPortland State University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundAs health profession schools implement addiction curricula, they need survey instruments to evaluate the impact of the educational interventions. However, existing measures do not use current non-stigmatizing language and fail to capture core concepts.

objectiveTo develop a brief measure of health profession student readiness to work with people who use drugs (PWUDs) and establish its content validity.

methodsWe conducted a literature review of existing instruments and desired clinical competencies related to providing care to PWUD and used results and expert feedback to create and revise a pool of 72 items. We conducted cognitive interviews with ten pre-clinical health profession students from various US schools of nursing, pharmacy, and medicine to ensure the items were easy to understand. Finally, we used a modified Delphi process with twenty-four health professions educators and addiction experts (eight each from nursing, pharmacy, and medicine) to select items for inclusion in the final scale. We analyzed expert ratings of individual items and interdisciplinary agreement on ratings to decide how to prioritize items. We ultimately selected 12 attitudes and 12 confidence items to include in the REadiness to Discuss Use, Common Effects, and HArm Reduction Measure (REDUCE-HARM). Experts rated their overall assessment of the final scale.

resultsTwenty-two of twenty-four experts agreed or strongly agreed that the attitudes scale measures student attitudes that impact readiness to work with PWUDs. Twenty-three of twenty-four experts agreed or strongly agreed that the confidence scale measures student self-efficacy in competencies that impact readiness to work with PWUDs. Seven of 72 initial items and none of the 24 selected items had statistically significant differences between disciplines.

conclusionsThe REDUCE-HARM instrument has strong content validity and may serve as a useful tool in evaluating addiction education. Additional research is needed to establish its reliability, construct validity, and responsiveness to change.

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Clinical CompetenceStudentsCurriculumHumansReproducibility of ResultsSurveys and Questionnairescompetency-based educationharm reductioninterdisciplinary studysubstance-related disorderssurvey methodssurveys and questionnairesundergraduate medical education

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PMID35419741
PMCPMC9640533
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