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El-Zoghby, SM, Madroumi, R, Kewley, S and Van Hout, MC (2024) Insights into primary care physicians’ detection, intervention and management of patients with substance use disorders in Egypt. Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse. pp. 1-19. ISSN 1533-2640
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Abstract
Egypt is experiencing an increasing drug problem (cannabis, heroin, amphetamines, pharmaceutical opioids, synthetic cannabinoids). Whilst harm reduction and addiction treatment are provided by government and non-governmental organisations in Egypt, very little is known about physicians experience of handling patient substance use and substance use disorder (SUD) in primary care. A cross-sectional national study of 392 Egyptian Family Physicians (FPs) & General Practitioners (GPs) explored their knowledge, attitude and professional practice regarding management of SUD in primary care, as a first step towards identifying professional development support needs and informing general practice. Findings underscore the need for greater depth of addiction training during undergraduate medical education and in continuing professional development, so that Egyptian FPs/GPs can better prevent harmful substance use, detect patients with SUD, intervene and support those in treatment. This study provides unique information which will inform further development and scale of evidence based SUD brief intervention and treatment within Egyptian primary care
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 1117 Public Health and Health Services; 1701 Psychology; Public Health; Substance Abuse |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Divisions: | Psychology (from Sep 2019) Public Health Institute |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
| SWORD Depositor: | A Symplectic |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Mar 2024 12:34 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Apr 2024 12:00 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1080/15332640.2024.2336490 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/22925 |
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