Integrating methadone into primary care settings in Ukraine: effects on provider stigma and knowledge

CONCLUSIONS: Integrating OAT services within primary settings was associated with significantly reduced stigma constructs and improved attitudes towards PWID, possibly through increased intergroup contact between PWID and general clinical staff. Unlike most stigma reduction interventions, re-engineering clinical processes so that PWID receive their care in PCCs emerges as a multilevel stigma reduction intervention through the integration of specialized services in PCCs. Integration influences different types of stigma, and has positive effects not only on health outcomes, but also improves clinician attitudes and efficiently reduces clinician stigma.PMID:38379179 | DOI:10.1002/jia2.26202

Source: Journal of the International AIDS Society - February 21, 2024 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Daniel J Bromberg Eteri Machavariani Lynn M Madden Konstantin Dumchev Katherine LaMonaca Valerie A Earnshaw Iryna Pykalo Myroslava Filippovych Marwan S Haddad Sergii Dvoriak Frederick L Altice Source Type: research