BMC Psychiatry | |
Challenges to providing quality substance abuse treatment services for American Indian and Alaska native communities: perspectives of staff from 18 treatment centers | |
Research Article | |
Douglas Novins1  Ashley Raleigh-Cohn1  Alexandra Fickenscher1  Rupinder Legha2  | |
[1] Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Mail Stop F800, Nighthorse Campbell Native Health Building, 13055 E. 17th Ave., 80045, Aurora, CO, USA;Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado, 13001 E. 17th St., MSF546, Building 500, 80045, Aurora, CO, USA; | |
关键词: Indians; North American; Substance abuse treatment centers; Health services research; Organizational case studies; | |
DOI : 10.1186/1471-244X-14-181 | |
received in 2014-03-15, accepted in 2014-06-10, 发布年份 2014 | |
来源: Springer | |
【 摘 要 】
BackgroundSubstance abuse continues to exact a significant toll, despite promising advancements in treatment, and American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities remain disproportionately impacted. Understanding the challenges to providing quality substance abuse treatment to AI/AN communities could ultimately result in more effective treatment interventions, but no multi-site studies have examined this important issue.MethodsThis qualitative study examined the challenges of providing substance abuse treatment services for American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities. We conducted key informant interviews and focus groups at 18 substance abuse treatment programs serving AI/AN communities. Seventy-six service participants (21 individuals in clinical administrative positions and 55 front-line clinicians) participated in the project. Interview transcripts were coded to identify key themes.ResultsWe found that the challenges of bringing effective substance abuse treatment to AI/AN communities fell into three broad categories: challenges associated with providing clinical services, those associated with the infrastructure of treatment settings, and those associated with the greater service/treatment system. These sets of challenges interact to form a highly complex set of conditions for the delivery of these services.ConclusionsOur findings suggest that substance abuse treatment services for AI/AN communities require more integrated, individualized, comprehensive, and longer-term approaches to care. Our three categories of challenges provide a useful framework for eliciting challenges to providing quality substance abuse treatment in other substance abuse treatment settings.
【 授权许可】
CC BY
© Legha et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014
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