Gender identity, stimulant drug use, and criminal justice history on internalized stigma among a nationally representative sample of adults who misuse opioids

The rise of fatal stimulant use among adults who use opioids is a public health problem. Internalized stigma is a barrier to substance use treatment, which is greater for women and populations with criminal justice involvement. Using a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States from a probability-based survey on household opinions in…

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Latent class analysis of medical mistrust and COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among adults in the United States just prior to FDA emergency use authorization

We used survey responses to conduct a latent class analysis to classify respondents into categories and explained this classification as a function of sociodemographic and attitudinal variables using multinomial logistic regression models. We then estimated the probability of respondents agreeing to receive a COVID-19 vaccine conditional on their medical mistrust category.

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National variability in Americans’ COVID-19 protective behaviors

Protective behaviors such as mask wearing and physical distancing are critical to slow the spread of COVID-19, even in the context of vaccine scale-up. Understanding the variation in self-reported COVID-19 protective behaviors is critical to developing public health messaging. The purpose of the study is to provide nationally representative estimates of five self-reported COVID-19 protective…

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Results from the NORC’s AmeriSpeak Stigma Survey 3 on the General Public’s Views Towards Recovery and Treatment from Opioid Use Disorder (June 2020)

This presentation contains results from the MAARC’s third AmeriSpeak Brief Stigma Survey (JCOIN 026) done in June 2020. NORC conducted a third cross-sectional national survey of the U.S. adult population, using AmeriSpeak’s® web, probability-based panel. The third of the AmeriSpeak Omnibus Surveys continues NORC’s work measuring stigma and opioid use disorder (OUD) but adds questions…

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