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Attitudes and beliefs towards methadone maintenance treatment among Australian prison health staff (2007)
(Attitudes et croyances vis à vis du traitement à la méthadone parmi le personnel médical des prisons australiennes)
Auteur(s) :
GJERSING, L. ;
BUTLER, T. ;
CAPLEHORN, J. R. ;
BELCHER, J. M. ;
MATTHEWS, R.
Année :
2007
Page(s) :
501-508
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
23
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Thésaurus mots-clés
PRISON
;
METHADONE
;
REPRESENTATION SOCIALE
;
ETUDE TRANSVERSALE
;
PERSONNEL MEDICAL
;
ATTITUDE
;
TRAITEMENT DE MAINTENANCE
Thésaurus géographique
AUSTRALIE
Résumé :
Introduction and Aims. Justice Health NSW has one of the most extensive prison-based methadone programmes in the world. We examine prison health staff attitudes towards methadone treatment and compare these with community methadone staff. Design and Methods. A cross-sectional survey of 202 staff employed by Justice Health New South Wales was undertaken in 2003. Results. The mean scores on the various sub-scales were: abstinence-orientation (AO) 2.9 (95% CI 2.8 - 3.0); disapproval of drug use (DDU) 3.3 (95% CI 3.2 - 3.4); knowledge (Know) 2.7 (95% CI 2.4 - 2.9); and toxicity 4.6 (95% CI 4.2 - 5.0). Both the AO and DDU score were correlated negatively with the Know score (r = -0.37 and r = -0.13, respectively). Prison health staff had higher AO (2.9 vs. 2.6, p
Affiliation :
School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice, Sydney, Australia
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