Service-level barriers to and facilitators of accessibility to treatment for problematic alcohol use: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Services to treat problematic alcohol use (PAU) should be highly accessible to optimize treatment engagement. We conducted a scoping review to map characteristics of services for the treatment of PAU that have been reported in the literature to be barriers to or facilitators of access to treatment from the perspective of individuals with PAU.

Methods

A protocol was developed a priori, registered, and published. We searched MEDLINE^®, Embase, the Cochrane Library, and additional grey literature sources from 2010 to April 2022 to identify primary qualitative research and surveys of adults with current or past PAU requiring treatment that were designed to identify modifiable characteristics of PAU treatment services (including psychosocial and phar

SUBMITTER: Wolfe DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10722420 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature