"There's always somebody that you can identify with": a qualitative study of patient perspectives on buprenorphine group medical visits.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Buprenorphine (BUP) treatment has been successfully integrated into primary care and other general medical settings; however, potential BUP prescribers frequently report inadequate training and resources to provide psychosocial counseling as barriers to providing care. Group medical visits, which combine psychosocial support and chronic condition management, have been described for BUP treatment, but few studies have explored what is gained and/or lost by offering BUP treatment in groups instead of individual visits.

Methods

Five focus groups with 3-11 participants each were conducted at an urban community health center that housed a mature office-based BUP treatment program. Participants were persons with opioid use disorder (OUD) who had previously received BUP

SUBMITTER: Masyukova M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11796086 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature