Community-level determinants of stakeholder perceptions of community stigma toward people with opioid use disorders, harm reduction services and treatment in the HEALing Communities Study

Original research
par
Davis, Alissa et al

Date de publication

2023

Géographie

USA

Langue de la ressource

English

Texte disponible en version intégrale

Non

Open Access / OK to Reproduce

Non

Évalué par des pairs

Yes

L’objectif

We examined whether rurality, social inequity, and racialized segregation across communities from four states in the HEALing Communities Study (HCS) were associated with 1) greater perceived community stigma toward people treated for opioid use disorder (OUD), 2) greater perceived intervention stigma toward medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD), and 3) greater perceived intervention stigma toward naloxone by community stakeholders in the HEALing Communities Study (HCS).

Constatations/points à retenir

On average, the perceived community OUD stigma scale score of stakeholders from rural communities was 4% higher, stigma toward MOUD was 6% higher, and stigma toward naloxone was 10% higher than among stakeholders from urban communities. No significant differences in the three stigma variables were found among communities based on racialized segregation or social inequity.

La conception ou méthodologie de recherche

Cross-sectional survey (n=801)

Mots clés

Stigma
Rural/remote
Equity