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Barriers to Accessing Addiction Treatment for Women at Risk of Homelessness

Women remain under-represented in addiction treatment, comprising less than a third of clients in treatment services. Shame, stigma, and fear of legal and social repercussions (e.g., child protection involvement) are major barriers impacting on treatment-seeking for women. This is compounded for wom...

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Autores principales: Rizzo, Davinia, Mu, Temika, Cotroneo, Sophia, Arunogiri, Shalini
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8893170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35252964
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.795532
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author Rizzo, Davinia
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description Women remain under-represented in addiction treatment, comprising less than a third of clients in treatment services. Shame, stigma, and fear of legal and social repercussions (e.g., child protection involvement) are major barriers impacting on treatment-seeking for women. This is compounded for women at risk of homelessness, with practical and logistical reasons for not engaging in treatment. We conducted a qualitative study with both clinicians and service-providers, and women with lived experience of addiction and at risk of homelessness, to identify barriers to access and help-seeking within this vulnerable population. Adult women with lived experience of homelessness and addiction were invited to participate in an online focus group. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using framework analysis. Analysis resulted in the identification of barriers to access in three areas. These were system-related, socio-cultural, and emotional barriers. We also present findings from the focus group recorded in real-time, using the novel method of digital illustration. This study highlights key factors impacting on help-seeking and access to treatment for addiction faced by women at risk of homelessness. The findings of this study highlight important areas of consideration for clinicians and service-providers working with women who experience addiction, as well as informing future research directions for this priority population. Findings are discussed in the context of exigent literature.
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spelling pubmed-88931702022-03-04 Barriers to Accessing Addiction Treatment for Women at Risk of Homelessness Rizzo, Davinia Mu, Temika Cotroneo, Sophia Arunogiri, Shalini Front Glob Womens Health Global Women's Health Women remain under-represented in addiction treatment, comprising less than a third of clients in treatment services. Shame, stigma, and fear of legal and social repercussions (e.g., child protection involvement) are major barriers impacting on treatment-seeking for women. This is compounded for women at risk of homelessness, with practical and logistical reasons for not engaging in treatment. We conducted a qualitative study with both clinicians and service-providers, and women with lived experience of addiction and at risk of homelessness, to identify barriers to access and help-seeking within this vulnerable population. Adult women with lived experience of homelessness and addiction were invited to participate in an online focus group. Interviews were transcribed and analyzed using framework analysis. Analysis resulted in the identification of barriers to access in three areas. These were system-related, socio-cultural, and emotional barriers. We also present findings from the focus group recorded in real-time, using the novel method of digital illustration. This study highlights key factors impacting on help-seeking and access to treatment for addiction faced by women at risk of homelessness. The findings of this study highlight important areas of consideration for clinicians and service-providers working with women who experience addiction, as well as informing future research directions for this priority population. Findings are discussed in the context of exigent literature. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8893170/ /pubmed/35252964 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.795532 Text en Copyright © 2022 Rizzo, Mu, Cotroneo and Arunogiri. 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.
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Barriers to Accessing Addiction Treatment for Women at Risk of Homelessness
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title_short Barriers to Accessing Addiction Treatment for Women at Risk of Homelessness
title_sort barriers to accessing addiction treatment for women at risk of homelessness
topic Global Women's Health
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8893170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35252964
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fgwh.2022.795532
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