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Development and evaluation of a community-based buprenorphine treatment intervention

Overview of attention for article published in Harm Reduction Journal, May 2017
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Title
Development and evaluation of a community-based buprenorphine treatment intervention
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Harm Reduction Journal, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12954-017-0149-y
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Aaron D. Fox, Nancy L. Sohler, Taeko Frost, Carolina Lopez, Chinazo O. Cunningham

Abstract

The majority of Americans with opioid use disorder remain out of treatment. Operating in 33 states, Washington DC, and Puerto Rico, harm reduction agencies, which provide sterile syringes and other health services to people who inject drugs, are a key venue to reach out-of-treatment opioid users. Aiming to link out-of-treatment individuals with opioid use disorder to buprenorphine treatment, we developed a community-based buprenorphine treatment (CBBT) intervention in collaboration with New York City harm reduction agencies. Intervention development included formative data collection, feasibility testing at one harm reduction agency, and pilot testing for preliminary effectiveness at a second harm reduction agency. We used a pre-post design for both feasibility and pilot testing. In the CBBT intervention, we trained harm reduction agency staff to provide (1) buprenorphine education, (2) motivational interviewing, (3) referrals to buprenorphine-prescribing doctors, and (4) treatment retention support. We assessed feasibility by measuring staff satisfaction with the intervention and changes in knowledge about buprenorphine. We assessed preliminary effectiveness by comparing rates of buprenorphine initiation among groups of harm reduction agency clients before and after intervention implementation. Among staff members at the first harm reduction agency, knowledge increased from 52% correct answers pre-intervention to 79% correct post-intervention. Among clients at the second harm reduction agency, initiation of buprenorphine treatment was low and did not differ between pre- and post-intervention groups. The CBBT intervention was feasible and well-received, but initiation of buprenorphine treatment among harm reduction agency clients was low. More robust interventions may be necessary to increase initiation of buprenorphine treatment.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 81 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 22%
Student > Master 11 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 7%
Other 6 7%
Student > Postgraduate 5 6%
Other 16 20%
Unknown 19 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 15%
Social Sciences 10 12%
Psychology 4 5%
Neuroscience 2 2%
Other 6 7%
Unknown 22 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 June 2017.
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#7,490,397
of 24,882,360 outputs
Outputs from Harm Reduction Journal
#719
of 1,069 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#108,830
of 315,582 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Harm Reduction Journal
#21
of 26 outputs
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