attitudes

Teacher attitudes toward evidence-based practices: Exploratory and confirmatory analyses of the school-adapted evidence-based practice attitude scale

Scientific article

17 January 2023

Abstract Background The Evidence-Based Practice Attitudes Scale (EBPAS) is widely used in implementation research, but it has not been adapted and validated for use among general education teachers, who are most likely to deliver evidence...

Participants Required: Online Consultation on Stigmatizing Attitudes

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In response to Resolution 61/11 ‘Promoting non-stigmatizing attitudes to ensure the availability of, access to and delivery of health, care and social services for drug users’ adopted during the 61st session of the Commission on Narcotic...

Participants Required for Study of Attitudes towards Smoking and Health

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SASH: Study of Attitudes towards Smoking and Health is a research study that aims to understand smoking beliefs, attitudes and behaviours in current smokers who are aged 50 years and older and living in the UK. If you are eligible, the...

HIV Knowledge and Risk Behaviors among Drug Users in Three Vietnamese Mountainous Provinces

Scientific article

15 January 2019

Abstract Background Globally, people who inject drugs are highly vulnerable to HIV transmission. Methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) programs are one of the most cost-effective mechanisms to substitute opioid use and improve the quality...

Monitoring the Future: Teleconference Recording

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18 December 2018

Dr Nora Volkow, NIDA Director, discusses the results of the 2018 Monitoring the Future survey during a teleconference which took place on December 17, 2018. Monitoring the Future tracks drug use trends of 8th, 10th, and 12th-grade students...

Short-Term Impact of the EuroPean Accredited Curriculum on Tobacco Treatment Training (EPACTT) Program

Scientific article

1 July 2018

ABSTRACT: Introduction: The aim of this pilot study was to assess the short-term effectiveness of the EuroPean Accredited Curriculum on Tobacco Treatment Training intervention in improving health care providers’ knowledge, attitudes and...

Attitudes toward Medicinal Marijuana in Metropolitan Monterrey, Mexico

Scientific article

1 March 2018

Due to the great controversies about the subject, the objective was to know the public opinion about the legalization of the medicinal (MM) and recreational marijuana RM. For that, a survey was applied in the metropolitan area of...

Physicians’ Views on the Role of Smoking in Smoking-Related Diseases

Scientific article

19 July 2017

Abstract Background Previous reports have shown that physicians who smoke underestimate the effects of smoking on health and this influences their practice. This study was designed to investigate the views of Estonian physicians on the role...

8th Australasian Drug and Alcohol Strategy Conference

2 May 2017

Wellington

New Zealand

The Australian and New Zealand national drug policies recognise the critical importance of building partnerships between health and law enforcement sectors and engaging all levels and parts of government and non-government sectors and the community.