Workforce Diversity and disparities in wait time and retention among opioid treatment programs.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Workforce diversity is a key strategy to improve treatment engagement among members of racial and ethnic minority groups. In this study, we seek to determine whether workforce diversity plays a role in reducing racial and ethnic differences in wait time to treatment entry and retention in different types of opioid use disorder treatment programs.

Methods

We conducted comparative and predictive analysis in a subsample of outpatient opioid treatment programs (OTPs), who completed access and retention survey questions in four waves of the National Drug Abuse Treatment System Survey (162 OTPs in 2000, 173 OTPs in 2005, 282 OTPs in 2014, and 300 OTPs in 2017). We sought to assess the associations between workforce diversity on wait time and retention, accounting for th

SUBMITTER: Guerrero EG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9670430 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature