Titre : | Attitudes and beliefs towards methadone maintenance treatment among Australian prison health staff (2007) |
Titre traduit : | (Attitudes et croyances vis à vis du traitement à la méthadone parmi le personnel médical des prisons australiennes) |
Auteurs : | L. GJERSING ; T. BUTLER ; J. R. CAPLEHORN ; J. M. BELCHER ; R. MATTHEWS |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | Drug and Alcohol Review (Vol.26 n°5, 2007) |
Article en page(s) : | 501-508 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | TRA (Traitement et prise en charge / Treatment and care) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés PRISON ; METHADONE ; REPRESENTATION SOCIALE ; ETUDE TRANSVERSALE ; PERSONNEL MEDICAL ; ATTITUDE ; TRAITEMENT DE MAINTENANCEThésaurus 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 |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 23 |
Affiliation : | School of Public Health, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia; Centre for Health Research in Criminal Justice, Sydney, Australia |
Numéro Toxibase : | 1302171 |
Centre Emetteur : | 13 OFDT |
Cote : | Abonnement |
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