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The Student Athlete Wellness Portal: Translating Student Athletes’ Prescription Opioid Use Narratives into a Targeted Public Health Intervention
- Source :
- Medicina, Vol 58, Iss 11, p 1642 (2022)
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- MDPI AG, 2022.
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Abstract
- Background and Objectives: The opioid epidemic has permeated all strata of society over the last two decades, especially within the adolescent student athletic environment, a group particularly at risk and presenting their own challenges for science and practice. This paper (a) describes the development of a web-based intervention called the Student Athlete Wellness Portal that models effective opioid misuse resistance strategies and (b) details the findings of a single-group design to test its effectiveness. Materials and Methods: Formative research included 35 student athletes residing in the United States, ages 14 to 21, who had been injured in their school-based sport. They participated in in-depth qualitative interviews to explore narratives relating to their injuries and pain management plans. Inductive analyses of interview transcripts revealed themes of the challenges of being a student athlete, manageable vs. unmanageable pain, and ways to stay healthy. These themes were translated into prevention messages for the portal, which was then tested in a single-group design. Results: Users of the portal (n = 102) showed significant decreases in their willingness to misuse opioids and increases in their perceptions of opioid risks. Conclusions: This manuscript illuminates the processes involved in translating basic research knowledge into intervention scripts and reveals the promising effects of a technology-based wellness portal.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16489144 and 1010660X
- Volume :
- 58
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- Medicina
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.7923138ca2dc475fb9d6bf0c373121f4
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3390/medicina58111642