Optimizing a community-engaged multi-level group intervention to reduce substance use: an application of the multiphase optimization strategy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Rates of alcohol and illicit drug use (AIDU) are consistently similar across racial groups (Windsor and Negi, J Addict Dis 28:258-68, 2009; Keyes et al. Soc Sci Med 124:132-41, 2015). Yet AIDU has significantly higher consequences for residents in distressed communities with concentrations of African Americans (DCAA - i.e., localities with high rates of poverty and crime) who also have considerably less access to effective treatment of substance use disorders (SUD). This project is optimizing Community Wise, an innovative multi-level behavioral-health intervention created in partnership with service providers and residents of distressed communities with histories of SUD and incarceration, to reduce health inequalities related to AIDU.

Methods

Grounded in critical

SUBMITTER: Windsor LC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5921441 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature