Differences in Substance Use-Related Attitudes across Behavioral and Primary Health Trainees: A Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) Training Investigation

ABSTRACT

In order to investigate inter-disciplinary differences in substance use-related attitudes, 651 trainees from counseling, dentistry, nursing, physician assistant, and psychology programs were assessed before and following substance use training. The results of paired sample t-tests indicated that all six training groups demonstrated significant positive change on at least one measure of attitude with dentistry and physician assistant students demonstrating the most significant change.

KEYWORDS:

• Addiction
• training
• inter-disciplinary
• screening
• substance use

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All co-authors contributed significantly to this project and each has consented to the submission of the manuscript. The first author nor co-authors have a conflict of interest in the research or publication related to this work.

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Funding

This project was funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Association, grant # TI025953-03. The funder had no involvement in any aspect of the development or submission of the manuscript.