Reducing stigma towards substance users through an educational intervention: Harder than it looks

Academic Psychiatry

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 420-425

  Crapanzano, Kathleen ^a   Vath, Richard J ^b   Fisher, Dixie ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b OUR LADY OF THE LAKE REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol use disorder; Attitude of health professional; Attitudes; Attitudes to Mental Illness Questionnaire; Discrimination; Education; Intervention studies; Physician assistant students; Stigma; Substance abuse; Substance use disorders

Indexed keywords

ADDICTION; ADULT; CURRICULUM; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; STANDARDS;

ADULT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS; SOCIAL STIGMA; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS;

EID: 84904899580     PISSN: 10429670     EISSN: 15457230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40596-014-0067-1     Document Type: Article

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