Publications by authors named "Sharon Trillo-Park"
Assessing the Safety, User Acceptability, Dissemination, and Reach of a Comprehensive Web-Based Resource on Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD Hub): Protocol for a Development and Usability Study.
Melanie Jane Nicholls Alexandra Almeida Justin Castello David Grelotti Bianca Daugherty Sharon Trillo-Park
JMIR Res Protoc
November 2024
Article Synopsis
- The MOUD Hub is a new, user-friendly website aimed at improving access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) by providing reliable information and resources.
- The study will assess the safety, acceptability, and feasibility of the Hub through focus groups with individuals who have lived experience with opioid use disorder and potential users.
- The website is set to launch in January 2025, with plans to promote it on Google and Reddit to reach a broader audience and analyze user engagement.
Article Synopsis
- The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of using time-series analyses to monitor both fatal and non-fatal drug overdoses as a way to spot emerging drug threats and detect fatal overdose outbreaks early.
- Researchers analyzed county-level data from California and Florida from 2015 to 2021, using the Farrington algorithm to identify unusual increases in overdose counts alongside a standard method for comparison.
- Findings showed that while both methods generated similar alerts for non-fatal overdoses, the benchmark method identified more alerts for fatal overdoses, with the sensitivity of detecting ongoing fatal overdose outbreaks being 66% at the county level and around 77-81% at the regional level.