Bharath Rathinam, Sinu Ezhumalai
Perceived Social Support among Abstinent Individuals with Substance use disorder
Journal of psychosocial rehabilitation and mental health
paramedics attend unprecedented number drug poisoning events daily british columbia bc canada due ongoing public health crisis related increasingly toxic unregulated street supply illicit drugs paramedics potential support alternative models care reduce harm perspectives toward harm reduction initiatives polarized understanding drugrelated substance use content paramedic curriculum documents important deploying effective harmmitigating programs aim study determine illicit drugrelated substance curriculum prepares paramedics practice british columbia performed document analysis curriculum documents bcs paramedic training institutions primary program textbook 2011 national occupational competency profile nocp paramedics canada used olearys eightstep process guide planning procedure analysis analyzed coded documents inductively deductively subsequently combined refined used codes inform development themes via reflexive thematic analysis checklist assessment reporting document analysis carda tool used report analysis 45 documents analyzed 23 included codes relevant research questions paramedics primarily taught care people use drugs acute drug poisoning response little consideration holistic care meaningful mention harm reduction stigmatizing language found within content many opportunities introduce holistic models care people use drugs along entire continuum care unaddressed paramedic curriculum documents bc curriculum developers include people lived living experience drug use codesign educational programs involving care qualitative analyses required evaluate relationship paramedic education providerbased stigma