Cid Ashley, Patten Alec, Beazely Michael A, Grindrod Kelly
School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, 10A Victoria St. S, Kitchener, ON N2G 1C5, Canada.
Pharmacy (Basel). 2024 Jul 9;12(4):105. doi: 10.3390/pharmacy12040105.
The opioid crisis in Canada continues to cause a devastating number of deaths. Community-based naloxone programs have been identified as one of the solutions for combatting this crisis; however, there are disparities in which pharmacies stock and offer naloxone. Opioid-related stigma is a major barrier for limited naloxone distribution through pharmacies. Therefore, the development of anti-stigma interventions is crucial to improve naloxone distribution in Canada. However, there is no validated tool to specifically measure opioid-related stigma. The Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers (OMS-HC) is a validated scale used to measure mental illness-related stigma. This study will adapt the OMS-HC by using four different opioid-related terminologies to determine which is the most stigmatizing to use in an opioid-related anti-stigma intervention. Pharmacy students completed four versions of the adapted OMS-HC. The average OMS-HC scores and Cronbach's α co-efficient were calculated for each version. The term "opioid addiction" was found to be the most stigmatizing term among participants and will be used in the adapted version of the OMS-HC in a future anti-stigma interventions.
加拿大的阿片类药物危机持续导致大量死亡。基于社区的纳洛酮项目已被视为应对这一危机的解决方案之一；然而，各药店在纳洛酮的储备和供应方面存在差异。与阿片类药物相关的污名是通过药店限制纳洛酮分发的一个主要障碍。因此，开展反污名干预措施对于改善加拿大的纳洛酮分发至关重要。然而，目前尚无专门用于衡量与阿片类药物相关污名的有效工具。医疗保健提供者的开放思维污名量表（OMS-HC）是一种用于衡量与精神疾病相关污名的有效量表。本研究将通过使用四种不同的与阿片类药物相关的术语来改编OMS-HC，以确定在与阿片类药物相关的反污名干预中使用哪种术语最具污名化。药学专业学生完成了改编后的OMS-HC的四个版本。计算了每个版本的OMS-HC平均得分和克朗巴哈α系数。“阿片类药物成瘾”一词在参与者中被发现是最具污名化的术语，并将在未来的反污名干预中用于改编后的OMS-HC版本。
