Abstract
BACKGROUND: Alcohol and/or opioid stigma perceptions are barriers to screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT) implementation. AIM: To examine SBIRT education and clinical exposure efficacy at decreasing nursing students’ stigma perceptions toward caring for patients affected by alcohol and/or opioid use problems. METHOD: A single-sample, pretest–posttest design with N = 124 nursing students. The students had a 1.5-hour SBIRT education session and a 12-week clinical experience with some patients who had alcohol and/or opioid use problems. RESULTS: The participants’ stigma perceptions improved toward patients who had alcohol and/or opioid use problems. CONCLUSIONS: SBIRT education and clinical exposure may provide a basis for promoting understanding of alcohol and/or opioid use–related stigma and can be used as an intervention to decrease some of stigma’s negative effects.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 467-475 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Journal of the American Psychiatric Nurses Association |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Nov 1 2019 |
Keywords
- alcohol
- nursing
- opioids
- stigma
- undergraduate
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Phychiatric Mental Health