All Resources for 'Education & Training'

Reporting treatment fidelity in behavioral tobacco treatment clinical trials: scoping review and measurement recommendations

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Quality Assurance
Ethics

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Introduction:

Adoption of rigorous standards for reporting treatment fidelity is essential for advancing discovery, validation, and implementation of behavioral treatments. Whereas the NIH Behavior Change Consortium (BCC)...

Becky Vaughn opens Vth Batch of UTC course by Ecolink Institute

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News
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Treatment
Treatment Settings

Ecolink opens its Vth International Batch on UTC training

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Becky Vaughn, Director of the Global Center for Credentialing and Certification (GCCC), US inaugurated the Vth Batch of the Universal Treatment Curriculum on 29 June 2021 under...

Plausibility of patient-centred care in high-intensity methadone treatment: Reflections of providers and patients

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

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Background: Patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) often have complex health care needs. Methadone is one of the medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) used in the management of OUDs. Highly restrictive methadone treatment...

Is telemedicine the answer to rural expansion of medication treatment for opioid use disorder? Early experiences in the feasibility study phase of a National Drug Abuse Treatment Clinical Trials Network Trial

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction
Telehealth
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Telemedicine (TM) enabled by digital health technologies to provide medical services has been considered a key solution to increasing health care access in rural communities. With the immediate need for remote care due to the...

Reimagining brief interventions for alcohol: Towards a paradigm fit for the twenty first century?

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

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Background: There is no longer support for the idea that brief intervention programmes alone can contribute meaningfully to the improvement of population health relating to alcohol. As a result, calls for major innovations and...

Cultural adaptation of measuring instruments on stigma and mental illness in Mexico City

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Scientific article
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Populations
Family
Mental Health

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This work is part of a collaborative study involving research teams in Canada and Mexico. The general objective is to describe the process of cultural adaptation and semantic validation of three measuring instruments on stigma and...

Development of an unannounced standardized patient protocol to evaluate opioid use disorder treatment in pregnancy for American Indian and rural communities

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Scientific article
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Addiction

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Background: Opioid use disorder (OUD) disproportionately impacts rural and American Indian communities and has quadrupled among pregnant individuals nationwide in the past two decades. Yet, limited data are available about access...

Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment Study

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Book
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Treatment
Treatment Settings
Populations
Family
Women

Supporting Women to Access Appropriate Treatment (SWAAT) is a National Drugs Strategy Strand 2 Strategic Health Initiative which aims to build community capacity to support women to access treatment and recovery from drug and alcohol use...

Tobacco Smoking and Associated Factors Among People Living With HIV in Uganda

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Scientific article
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Addiction
Mental Health

Rates of smoking among people living with HIV are greater than the number of people who smoke within the general population.

This article, published in the Journal of Nicotine and Tobacco, examines the smoking patterns and behaviours of...