College of Social Work, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Public Health Rep. 2023 May-Jun;138(1_suppl):56S-62S. doi: 10.1177/00333549221123585.
Paraprofessional substance use disorder counselors (SUDCs) are an important component of expanding access to substance use disorder treatment, but little research on SUDC training currently exists. We evaluated knowledge and self-efficacy gain from brief in-person and virtual workshops for paraprofessional SUDC student-trainees.
Student-trainees (N = 100) enrolled in an undergraduate SUDC training program completed 6 brief workshops from April 2019 to April 2021. Three in-person workshops during 2019 covered clinical assessment, suicide risk and evaluation, and motivational interviewing, and 3 virtual workshops during 2020-2021 covered family engagement and mindfulness-oriented recovery enhancement, as well as screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment for expectant mothers. Pretest and posttest online surveys measured student-trainee knowledge gain related to all 6 SUDC modalities. Results of paired sample tests evaluated changes in knowledge and self-efficacy from pretest to posttest.
All 6 workshops showed a significant gain in knowledge from pretest to posttest. Four workshops showed a significant gain in self-efficacy from pretest to posttest. Hedges ranged from 0.70 to 1.95 for knowledge gain and from 0.61 to 1.73 for self-efficacy gain across workshops. Common language effect sizes indicating the probability that a participant increased one's score from pretest to posttest ranged from 76% to 93% for knowledge gain and from 73% to 97% for self-efficacy gain across workshops.
Results of this study add to the limited research base on training for paraprofessional SUDCs and suggest that in-person learning and virtual learning are both viable brief training tools for students.
准专业的物质使用障碍辅导员（SUDC）是扩大物质使用障碍治疗可及性的重要组成部分，但目前关于 SUDC 培训的研究很少。我们评估了准专业 SUDC 学生学员参加简短的面对面和虚拟研讨会后的知识和自我效能感的提升。
学生学员（N=100）参加了一个本科 SUDC 培训项目，从 2019 年 4 月到 2021 年 4 月完成了 6 个简短的研讨会。2019 年期间的 3 个面对面研讨会涵盖了临床评估、自杀风险和评估以及动机性访谈，2020 年至 2021 年期间的 3 个虚拟研讨会涵盖了家庭参与和正念导向的康复增强，以及针对孕妇的筛查、简短干预和转介治疗。预测试和后测试的在线调查衡量了学生学员在所有 6 个 SUDC 模式中获得的知识。配对样本 t 检验评估了从预测试到后测试的知识和自我效能感的变化。
所有 6 个研讨会都显示出从预测试到后测试的知识显著增加。4 个研讨会显示出从预测试到后测试的自我效能感显著增加。Hedges 值从 0.70 到 1.95 不等，反映了 6 个研讨会中知识增益的幅度，从 0.61 到 1.73 不等，反映了自我效能感增益的幅度。通用语言效应大小表示从预测试到后测试，参与者提高分数的可能性，知识增益为 76%到 93%，自我效能感增益为 73%到 97%，涵盖了所有 6 个研讨会。
这项研究的结果增加了关于准专业 SUDC 培训的有限研究基础，并表明面对面学习和虚拟学习都是学生的可行的简短培训工具。
