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Attitudes of health professionals towards people with substance use disorders in Brazil, controlling for the effects of social desirability.
Leite Ferreira, Vitor; Gonçalves de Andrade Tostes, Joanna; Knaak, Stephanie; Silveira, Pollyanna Santos da; Fernandes Martins, Leonardo; Mota Ronzani, Telmo.
Afiliação
  • Leite Ferreira V; Centro de Referência em Pesquisa, Intervenção e Avaliação em Álcool & Drogas (CREPEIA), Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
  • Gonçalves de Andrade Tostes J; Centro de Referência em Pesquisa, Intervenção e Avaliação em Álcool & Drogas (CREPEIA), Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
  • Knaak S; Mental Health Commission of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
  • Silveira PSD; Psychology Department, Catholic University of Petropólis, Petropólis, Brazil.
  • Fernandes Martins L; Post-Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology, Pontifícia Universidade Católica - PUC RJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  • Mota Ronzani T; Centro de Referência em Pesquisa, Intervenção e Avaliação em Álcool & Drogas (CREPEIA), Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil.
Health Soc Care Community ; 30(5): e3041-e3052, 2022 09.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35142406
Health professionals are in a strategic position to help people with substance use disorders (SUDs) who seek health services for support or treatment. However, it is known that professionals' attitudes towards people who use alcohol and other drugs are marked by stigmatizing attitudes that create barriers to access quality treatment and make it difficult for the user to adhere to it. From this, the present study aimed to investigate the attitudes of 264 health professionals from specialised services and primary health care (PHC) in the Southeast region of Brazil, through Opening Minds Scale for Healthcare Providers (OMS-HC), taking into account the hypothesis of contact with the subject as a predictor of more positive attitudes. For this, a Multiple Hierarchical Regression was carried out to ascertain the contribution of the variables used in the explanatory model of attitudes. In addition, the measure of social desirability (SD), assessed by Brazilian Portuguese adaptation of Marlowe-Crowne Social Desirability Scale, was used as a control variable in the regression model to obtain a more robust and accurate model regarding the presence of biased responses, pervasive in studies on attitudes. In general, our findings showed that contact/familiarity with substance use, either through direct contact with users or through the respondent's own use, predicted more positive attitudes, with specialised service professionals expressing more positive attitudes than those working in PHC. Blaming the user for his/her condition presented itself as a predictor of more negative attitudes. Studies like this are of paramount importance for understanding the relationship established between professionals and service users and, therefore, for tailoring interventions and programs that aim to reduce stigmatizing attitudes and provide better access to health for people with SUDs. The importance of using the SD measure as a control variable in Regression is also emphasised, as an effective way to overcome to a common limitation in studies of attitudes.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Desejabilidade Social / Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Female / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Health Soc Care Community Assunto da revista: CIENCIAS SOCIAIS / MEDICINA SOCIAL / SERVICOS DE SAUDE Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Desejabilidade Social / Transtornos Relacionados ao Uso de Substâncias Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies Limite: Female / Humans / Male País/Região como assunto: America do sul / Brasil Idioma: En Revista: Health Soc Care Community Assunto da revista: CIENCIAS SOCIAIS / MEDICINA SOCIAL / SERVICOS DE SAUDE Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Brasil País de publicação: Reino Unido