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Cannabis Use Among Mental Health Professionals: A Qualitative Study of Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions
Background: Perceptions of cannabis-related risk are changing, and many are viewing cannabis as harmless despite the biopsychosocial risks. Perceptions of risk have an impact on behavior as individuals who are less likely to view cannabis as risky are more likely to use it problematically. Purpose:...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8427810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34511638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220426211032558 |
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description | Background: Perceptions of cannabis-related risk are changing, and many are viewing cannabis as harmless despite the biopsychosocial risks. Perceptions of risk have an impact on behavior as individuals who are less likely to view cannabis as risky are more likely to use it problematically. Purpose: This study examined how mental health professionals who use cannabis perceive the risks related to use. Methods: Interpretative phenomenological analysis was utilized to understand how participants made sense of the harm related to personal and client use. Interviews were conducted with a sample of social workers, nurses, and psychotherapists who work with cannabis-consuming clients. Results: Participants reported cannabis use is related to anxiety, relational challenges, impaired driving, psychosis, cognitive impairment, educational/employment dysfunction, and addiction in some users. Conclusion: Assessing risk perceptions among cannabis users can reveal subtle psychosocial problems the user may be experiencing. Mental health workers may benefit from further education regarding cannabis-related physical health harm. |
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spelling | pubmed-84278102021-09-10 Cannabis Use Among Mental Health Professionals: A Qualitative Study of Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions Ghelani, Amar J Drug Issues Articles Background: Perceptions of cannabis-related risk are changing, and many are viewing cannabis as harmless despite the biopsychosocial risks. Perceptions of risk have an impact on behavior as individuals who are less likely to view cannabis as risky are more likely to use it problematically. Purpose: This study examined how mental health professionals who use cannabis perceive the risks related to use. Methods: Interpretative phenomenological analysis was utilized to understand how participants made sense of the harm related to personal and client use. Interviews were conducted with a sample of social workers, nurses, and psychotherapists who work with cannabis-consuming clients. Results: Participants reported cannabis use is related to anxiety, relational challenges, impaired driving, psychosis, cognitive impairment, educational/employment dysfunction, and addiction in some users. Conclusion: Assessing risk perceptions among cannabis users can reveal subtle psychosocial problems the user may be experiencing. Mental health workers may benefit from further education regarding cannabis-related physical health harm. SAGE Publications 2021-07-20 2021-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8427810/ /pubmed/34511638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220426211032558 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
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title | Cannabis Use Among Mental Health Professionals: A Qualitative Study of Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions |
title_full | Cannabis Use Among Mental Health Professionals: A Qualitative Study of Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions |
title_fullStr | Cannabis Use Among Mental Health Professionals: A Qualitative Study of Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions |
title_full_unstemmed | Cannabis Use Among Mental Health Professionals: A Qualitative Study of Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions |
title_short | Cannabis Use Among Mental Health Professionals: A Qualitative Study of Cannabis-Related Risk Perceptions |
title_sort | cannabis use among mental health professionals: a qualitative study of cannabis-related risk perceptions |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8427810/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34511638 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00220426211032558 |
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