Alignment Between Resident Medical Condition Regard Scale Scores and Desire to Treat Patients With Opioid Use Disorder

Objectives To (1) evaluate attitudes of resident physicians towards patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) and (2) identify characteristics associated with residents’ desire to treat patients with OUD. Methods We administered the validated medical condition regard scale (MCRS), a question regarding desire to treat patients with OUD, and a demographic questionnaire to residents in multiple specialties at the University of New Mexico (family medicine, psychiatry, emergency medicine, internal medicine, anesthesiology, general surgery, obstetrics/gynecology). Results One hundred sixty-three of 307 residents (53%) responded to the survey; 146 provided complete responses to the “desire” and MCRS questions. Response rates, MCRS, and desire to care for patients with OUD varied between specialties (P
Source: Journal of Addiction Medicine - Category: Addiction Tags: Brief Reports Source Type: research