A survey of substance use by health care professionals and their attitudes to substance misuse patients (NHS Staff Survey)

Autor:	D. Raistrick, G. Tober, D. Russell, A. Tindale
Rok vydání:	2008
Předmět:	medicine.medical_specialty education.field_of_study Health (social science) business.industry Population Accident and emergency Medicine (miscellaneous) Primary care Age and sex Nursing Family medicine Health care medicine Substance misuse Illicit drug Substance use business education
Zdroj:	Journal of Substance Use. 13:57-69
ISSN:	1475-9942 1465-9891
DOI:	10.1080/14659890701237082
Popis:	Objective and design: To survey NHS staff in one NHS Region to determine (i) the extent of substance use and related problems, (ii) therapeutic attitudes towards people with substance misuse problems. A single phase cross‐sectional survey of health care professionals across six health authorities in the Yorkshire and Humberside region of England. Fifteen service areas were randomly selected from general psychiatry, accident and emergency, general medicine, including liver and obstetric units. Data were collected by means of an anonymous self‐completion questionnaire.Results and conclusion: Forty‐two per cent of questionnaires were returned. NHS staff reported similar rates of drinking, smoking and illicit drug use to those of the same age and sex in the general population. Doctors smoke less and use fewer illicit drugs, health care assistants smoke more and nurses use more illicit drugs. In contrast to surveys in primary care, this survey found that specialists scored low on role legitimacy of working wit...
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