Assessing Student Readiness to Work with People Who Use Drugs: Development of a Multi-disciplinary Addiction Educational Survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As health profession schools implement addiction curricula, they need survey instruments to evaluate the impact of the educational interventions. However, existing measures do not use current non-stigmatizing language and fail to capture core concepts.

Objective

To develop a brief measure of health profession student readiness to work with people who use drugs (PWUDs) and establish its content validity.

Methods

We conducted a literature review of existing instruments and desired clinical competencies related to providing care to PWUD and used results and expert feedback to create and revise a pool of 72 items. We conducted cognitive interviews with ten pre-clinical health profession students from various US schools of nursing, pharmacy, and medicine to ensu

SUBMITTER: Brown PCM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9640533 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature