Elisabeth Petersén, Hanna Augustsson Öfverström, Magnus Johansson, Christopher Sundström, Anne H Berman
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Smoothly interlocking organizational gears highlighted the need for structure and cooperation between digital care and in-person care. 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Digital interventions as part of routine addiction care in Sweden: healthcare staff perceptions of what works.
Background: Every year about three million people die globally due to harmful alcohol use. The treatment gap remains high: only about 14% of individuals with problematic alcohol use access treatment. The implementation of digital interventions, addressing problematic alcohol use, into healthcare can be one way of reducing the treatment gap. However, little is known about how healthcare staff perceive the integration of digital interventions in routine addiction care. The aim of the study was to identify and describe healthcare staff's experiences of perceived benefits of digital interventions for patients with alcohol use disorders (AUD), introduced in recent years within routine specialized addiction care in Sweden. The aim was further to explore how the use of such interventions in this setting could be further developed.
Methods: This study was conducted as an exploratory qualitative interview study with 16 informants from addiction care staff in Stockholm, Sweden. The informants came from three different groups: clinical managers, staff referring outpatients to digital interventions from within addiction care, and therapists from an e-support unit. The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with thematic analysis.
Results: Three themes illustrated the benefits of digital interventions in routine addiction care, and future development areas. The theme An easy way in reflected the importance of easy access to addiction care where care would be flexible and available to everyone. Meeting individual patient needs raised the question of how to adapt treatment formats to the patients' individual needs. Smoothly interlocking organizational gears highlighted the need for structure and cooperation between digital care and in-person care. Each theme included three additional subthemes.
Conclusions: The study identifies key factors for successfully integrating digital interventions in addiction care, highlighting the importance of staff engagement, structured workflows, training, and ongoing evaluation using a sociological framework.
期刊介绍:
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice provides a forum for clinically relevant research and perspectives that contribute to improving the quality of care for people with unhealthy alcohol, tobacco, or other drug use and addictive behaviours across a spectrum of clinical settings.
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice accepts articles of clinical relevance related to the prevention and treatment of unhealthy alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use across the spectrum of clinical settings. Topics of interest address issues related to the following: the spectrum of unhealthy use of alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs among the range of affected persons (e.g., not limited by age, race/ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation); the array of clinical prevention and treatment practices (from health messages, to identification and early intervention, to more extensive interventions including counseling and pharmacotherapy and other management strategies); and identification and management of medical, psychiatric, social, and other health consequences of substance use.
Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is particularly interested in articles that address how to improve the quality of care for people with unhealthy substance use and related conditions as described in the (US) Institute of Medicine report, Improving the Quality of Healthcare for Mental Health and Substance Use Conditions (Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2006). Such articles address the quality of care and of health services. Although the journal also welcomes submissions that address these conditions in addiction speciality-treatment settings, the journal is particularly interested in including articles that address unhealthy use outside these settings, including experience with novel models of care and outcomes, and outcomes of research-practice collaborations.
Although Addiction Science & Clinical Practice is generally not an outlet for basic science research, we will accept basic science research manuscripts that have clearly described potential clinical relevance and are accessible to audiences outside a narrow laboratory research field.