Systemic barriers and stigma: Healthcare provider perspectives on perinatal and neonatal care in the fentanyl crisis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The rise in fentanyl use during pregnancy has created new challenges in caring for women with opioid use disorders (OUD) and their infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome or neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome (NAS/NOWS). Despite complexities in treating opioid-affected dyads, little research exists on healthcare workers' perspectives regarding fentanyl's impact on perinatal and neonatal care.

Objectives

Explore dynamic challenges fentanyl has brought to the care of perinatal women with OUD and their infants experiencing NAS/NOWS from healthcare providers' perspectives.

Methods

Fifteen healthcare providers (neonatologists, OBGYNs, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and pediatricians) from the Pacific Northwest completed an online qualitative survey

SUBMITTER: Burduli E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12279044 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature