Adapting the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers to Measure Opioid-Related Stigma

IF 4.7 Q2 MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS ACS Applied Bio Materials Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI:10.3390/pharmacy12040105

Ashley Cid, Alec Patten, Michael Beazely, K. Grindrod

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The opioid crisis in Canada continues to cause a devastating number of deaths. Community-based naloxone programs have been identified as one of the solutions for combatting this crisis; however, there are disparities in which pharmacies stock and offer naloxone. Opioid-related stigma is a major barrier for limited naloxone distribution through pharmacies. Therefore, the development of anti-stigma interventions is crucial to improve naloxone distribution in Canada. However, there is no validated tool to specifically measure opioid-related stigma. The Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers (OMS-HC) is a validated scale used to measure mental illness-related stigma. This study will adapt the OMS-HC by using four different opioid-related terminologies to determine which is the most stigmatizing to use in an opioid-related anti-stigma intervention. Pharmacy students completed four versions of the adapted OMS-HC. The average OMS-HC scores and Cronbach’s α co-efficient were calculated for each version. The term “opioid addiction” was found to be the most stigmatizing term among participants and will be used in the adapted version of the OMS-HC in a future anti-stigma interventions.

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改编医疗服务提供者的 "开放心态污名化量表"，以衡量与阿片类药物相关的污名化程度

加拿大的阿片类药物危机继续造成大量人员死亡。以社区为基础的纳洛酮计划已被确定为应对这一危机的解决方案之一；然而，在药店储存和提供纳洛酮方面却存在差异。与阿片类药物相关的污名化是药店有限分发纳洛酮的主要障碍。因此，制定反污名化干预措施对于改善纳洛酮在加拿大的分发至关重要。然而，目前还没有专门用于衡量阿片类药物相关污名的有效工具。面向医疗保健提供者的开放心灵污名量表（OMS-HC）是一种经过验证的量表，用于测量与精神疾病相关的污名。本研究将通过使用四种不同的阿片类药物相关术语来调整 OMS-HC，以确定哪种术语在阿片类药物相关的反污名化干预中最容易造成污名化。药学院学生完成了四个版本的改编 OMS-HC。计算了每个版本的 OMS-HC 平均得分和 Cronbach's α 系数。结果发现，"阿片类药物成瘾 "一词在参与者中最具污名化倾向，因此将在未来的反污名化干预中使用改编版的 OMS-HC。

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ACS Applied Bio Materials Chemistry-Chemistry (all)

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9.40

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2.10%

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464

期刊介绍： ACS Applied Bio Materials is an interdisciplinary journal publishing original research covering all aspects of biomaterials and biointerfaces including and beyond the traditional biosensing, biomedical and therapeutic applications. The journal is devoted to reports of new and original experimental and theoretical research of an applied nature that integrates knowledge in the areas of materials, engineering, physics, bioscience, and chemistry into important bio applications. The journal is specifically interested in work that addresses the relationship between structure and function and assesses the stability and degradation of materials under relevant environmental and biological conditions.