Internal Medicine Resident Perceptions of Patients with Substance Use Disorder After Attending a Mutual Support Group Meeting.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mutual support groups (MSGs) are support systems for patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), yet medical residents lack awareness in the role MSGs play in addiction treatment.

Aim

We developed an educational intervention to expose residents to MSGs and improve attitudes toward patients with SUD.

Setting

The study took place from October 2017 to March 2018 within a large academic medical center.

Participants

First- to third-year internal medicine residents participated.

Program description

Residents attended a MSG meeting. They completed surveys pre- and post-meeting and attended a focus group debrief session. Focus group transcripts were coded and thematically analyzed.

Program evaluation

Sixty-eight residents participated in the

SUBMITTER: Kennedy AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7080948 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature