Patient experience of opioid use disorder treatment medications: a systematic review of contemporary qualitative research
Natalie Lowry, Carina Najia, Mike Kelleher, Luke Mitcheson, John Marsden · 2024
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Natalie Lowry and co-authors review in 2024 what patients say about medicines for opioid use disorder, gathering the recent qualitative research in one place. Agonist, partial agonist, and blocking medicines are the core treatments, yet how they feel to take was scattered across studies. Searches of three databases plus hand checks found forty seven reports from community and justice settings.
Five big themes emerged, covering hopes at the start of treatment and more. Studies were sorted first by a standard treatment planning frame, then woven into a narrative. Quality was checked with a reporting tool. The review gives clinicians and policy makers a patient eye view of sticking points and supports in medication based recovery.
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| CREATOR | Natalie Lowry, Carina Najia, Mike Kelleher, Luke Mitcheson, John Marsden |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 41 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |