Accessibility of Opioid Treatment Programs Based on Conventional vs Perceived Travel Time Measures.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Transportation barriers have long been associated with poorer health outcomes; this burden is especially acute for individuals with opioid use disorder (OUD), a chronic disease often associated with low socioeconomic status. Conventional travel time analyses may not fully account for experiential components of travel, thereby understating the true travel burden and overstating treatment accessibility to opioid treatment programs (OTPs).

Objective

To develop a metric of feels-like accessibility for those using public transit to access OTPs that accounts for the realistic travel burden on individuals with OUD.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study integrated high-resolution transit schedules and operating hours of OTPs to measure feels-

SUBMITTER: Kim J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10879949 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature