Blended smartphone intervention for patients in opioid maintenance treatment in Iran: protocol for a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The pattern of substance use in Iran is characterized by a high prevalence of opioid use and opioid use disorder (OUD). Although opioid maintenance therapy (OMT) has been introduced in Iran, approximately 50% of people with opioid use disorder remain unreached. Moreover, psychosocial treatment of OUD and common mental health symptoms during OMT is limited. Digital interventions have been shown to improve psychological distress, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms. In addition, providing psychoeducation and risk reduction counseling to prevent communicable diseases like HIV and infectious hepatitis is common via the Internet. However, despite these promising advances, no smartphone intervention in OMT has been investigated for the treatment of

SUBMITTER: Boumparis N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10354992 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature