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Initial Validation and Findings From the Willing/Ready Subscale of the Church Addiction Response Scale
Addiction has been a global health crisis over recent decades and worsened substantially during COVID-19 lockdowns. We report on the development, validation, and findings from an instrument developed to assess the readiness of churches in the Appalachian Highlands to address addiction. The Church Ad...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8558616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34733210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733913 |
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author | Clements, Andrea D. Cyphers, Natalie Whittaker, Deborah L. McCarty, Brett |
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description | Addiction has been a global health crisis over recent decades and worsened substantially during COVID-19 lockdowns. We report on the development, validation, and findings from an instrument developed to assess the readiness of churches in the Appalachian Highlands to address addiction. The Church Addiction Response Scale (CARS) is a 41-item, three section measure assessing “What are your views about addiction?” (14 items), “What are your views about interacting with people who are addicted to drugs?” (11 items), and “What do you think the church’s role is in addressing addiction?” (16 items). The CARS was found to be unidimensional with strong internal consistency and initial evidence of construct validity was positive. Most respondents reported willingness to assist people living with addiction, but many reported that they felt underprepared, thus were not ready. Areas of preparation were largely those that could be addressed through training, such as understanding the physiology and psychology of addiction, available treatment options, and how to avoid doing harm. Thus, with adequate training, the likelihood of equipping a church-based workforce to provide support for people living with addiction seems attainable. |
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spelling | pubmed-85586162021-11-02 Initial Validation and Findings From the Willing/Ready Subscale of the Church Addiction Response Scale Clements, Andrea D. Cyphers, Natalie Whittaker, Deborah L. McCarty, Brett Front Psychol Psychology Addiction has been a global health crisis over recent decades and worsened substantially during COVID-19 lockdowns. We report on the development, validation, and findings from an instrument developed to assess the readiness of churches in the Appalachian Highlands to address addiction. The Church Addiction Response Scale (CARS) is a 41-item, three section measure assessing “What are your views about addiction?” (14 items), “What are your views about interacting with people who are addicted to drugs?” (11 items), and “What do you think the church’s role is in addressing addiction?” (16 items). The CARS was found to be unidimensional with strong internal consistency and initial evidence of construct validity was positive. Most respondents reported willingness to assist people living with addiction, but many reported that they felt underprepared, thus were not ready. Areas of preparation were largely those that could be addressed through training, such as understanding the physiology and psychology of addiction, available treatment options, and how to avoid doing harm. Thus, with adequate training, the likelihood of equipping a church-based workforce to provide support for people living with addiction seems attainable. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8558616/ /pubmed/34733210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733913 Text en Copyright © 2021 Clements, Cyphers, Whittaker and McCarty. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Clements, Andrea D. Cyphers, Natalie Whittaker, Deborah L. McCarty, Brett Initial Validation and Findings From the Willing/Ready Subscale of the Church Addiction Response Scale |
title | Initial Validation and Findings From the Willing/Ready Subscale of the Church Addiction Response Scale |
title_full | Initial Validation and Findings From the Willing/Ready Subscale of the Church Addiction Response Scale |
title_fullStr | Initial Validation and Findings From the Willing/Ready Subscale of the Church Addiction Response Scale |
title_full_unstemmed | Initial Validation and Findings From the Willing/Ready Subscale of the Church Addiction Response Scale |
title_short | Initial Validation and Findings From the Willing/Ready Subscale of the Church Addiction Response Scale |
title_sort | initial validation and findings from the willing/ready subscale of the church addiction response scale |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8558616/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34733210 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.733913 |
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