Cross-sectional online survey of clinicians' knowledge, attitudes and challenges to screening and counselling adolescents and young adults for substance use.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine adolescent healthcare clinicians' self-reported screening practices as well as their knowledge, attitudes, comfort level and challenges with screening and counselling adolescents and young adults (AYA) for cigarette, e-cigarette, alcohol, marijuana, hookah and blunt use.

Design

A 2016 cross-sectional survey.

Setting

Academic departments and community-based internal medicine, family medicine and paediatrics practices.

Participants

Adolescent healthcare clinicians (N=771) from 12 US medical schools and respondents to national surveys. Of the participants, 36% indicated male, 64% female, mean age was 44 years (SD=12.3); 12.3% of participants identified as Asian, 73.7% as white, 4.8% as black, 4.2% as Hispanic and 3.8% as other.

Primary and

SUBMITTER: Gorukanti AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9685226 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature