A theoretical explanation of naloxone provision among primary care physicians and community pharmacists in Tennessee.

Background: Increasing access to naloxone reduces opioid-related morbidity and mortality. Primary care and community pharmacy settings are critical access points, yet limited theoretical research has examined naloxone prescribing and dispensing behaviors.

Objectives: To determine if the theory of planned behavior (TPB) combined with theoretical constructs from communication science explains intentions to co-prescribe and discuss co-dispensing naloxone among primary care physicians and community pharmacists, respectively.

"Breaking Bread" With Respondents: Strategies to Increase Response Rates and Create Long-Term Cooperation With Health Clinic Administrators.

Background And Objectives: To fully understand the impact of unintended pregnancy, as well as to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of programs targeted at reducing unintended pregnancy, it is critical that researchers be able to collect comprehensive data from health clinics that provide these services in vulnerable communities.

Methods: Our paper details recruitment and incentive strategies, as well as the theories that guided them, which allowed us to achieve a high survey response rate among health clinic administrators in public health clinics in 2 Southeastern states-South Carolina and Alabama-both of which have high rates of unintended pregnancy.

Results: Grounded in organizational theory, and utilizing the Tailored Design Method, we achieved a 68% response rate utilizing paper and web survey administration with multiple contact modes.

Motives for nonmedical use of prescription stimulants in community college students.

The present study identified common motives for nonmedical use of prescription stimulants (NMUS) among community college (CC) students and examined behavioral and demographic correlates of certain motives. The survey was completed by 3,113 CC students (72.4% female; 81.

Primary care physicians' opioid-related prevention behaviors and intentions: A descriptive analysis.

Objective: Primary care physicians (PCPs) are positioned to mitigate opioid morbidity and mortality, but their engagement in primary, secondary, and tertiary opioid-related prevention behaviors is unclear. The objective of this study was to evaluate Tennessee PCPs' engagement in and intention to engage in multiple opioid-related prevention behaviors.

Methods: A survey instrument was developed, pretested, and pilot tested with practicing PCPs.

Community pharmacist engagement in opioid use disorder prevention and treatment behaviors: A descriptive analysis.

Objectives: This study describes community pharmacists' opioid analgesic and medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD) practice behaviors and behavioral intentions in the context of primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention of opioid use disorder (OUD).

Methods: The study sampling frame consisted of 2302 Tennessee community-practice pharmacists who were asked to complete a mailed, paper questionnaire. Behavioral intentions were elicited by asking pharmacists to indicate the number of times (0 to 10) they engage in a behavior, given 10 patients in 3 distinct vignettes.

Communication Experiences of DATA-Waivered Physicians with Community Pharmacists: A Qualitative Study.

Patients engaged in evidence-based opioid use disorder (OUD) treatment can obtain prescriptions for buprenorphine containing products from specially trained physicians that are subsequently dispensed by community pharmacists. Despite the involvement of physicians and community pharmacists in buprenorphine prescribing and dispensing, respectively, our understanding of their interactions in this context is limited. To qualitatively describe the communication and collaborative experiences between Drug Addiction Treatment Act 2000 (DATA)-waivered physicians and community pharmacists from the perspective of the physician.

"It's Took Over This Region": Patient Perspectives of Prescription Drug Abuse in Appalachia.

Prescription drug abuse is a public health problem in the United States and the region of Appalachia, specifically. Primary care and addiction medicine-as possible points of access for prescription drugs with abuse potential and points of intervention for prescription drug abuse-are among the medical fields at its forefront. Little is known, however, about perceptions of prescription drug abuse across the two patient populations.

Mass Media Campaign to Reduce Consumption of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in a Rural Area of the United States.

Objectives: To evaluate a mass media campaign to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).

Methods: We disseminated messages emphasizing the health risks of SSBs through television, digital channels, and local organizations over 15 weeks in 2015-2016 in the Tri-Cities region of northeast Tennessee, southwest Virginia, and southeast Kentucky. We evaluated the campaign with pre- and post-telephone surveys of adults aged 18 to 45 years in the intervention area and by examining changes in beverage sales in the intervention and a matched comparison area in western Virginia.