Association Between Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitudes and Caring Behaviors Toward People with Opioid Use Disorder

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Inyene Essien-Aleksi, Merrimack College

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Essien-Aleksi, Inyene. Association Between Nurses’ Knowledge and Attitudes and Caring Behaviors Toward People with Opioid Use Disorder. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-09-29. https://doi.org/10.3886/E238465V1

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Opioid use disorder (OUD) remains one of the leading causes of
preventable deaths in the U.S. Each year, over 1 million U.S. adults seek hospital care
for OUD-related conditions. However, hospitals often provide inadequate treatment.
Many patients with OUD encounter barriers such as limited overdose prevention,
medication delays, and poor follow-up after discharge. Nurses can improve inpatient
OUD care. Yet, research shows they often lack knowledge and hold negative attitudes
toward patients with OUD. This gap may decrease the quality of care nurses provide to
people with OUD. This study examined the knowledge and attitudes of adult hospital
nurses toward OUD, their caring behaviors, and whether these differed based on their
demographic and work-related factors. We also examined the relationship between
nurses’ knowledge and attitudes, and caring behaviors toward hospitalized adult
patients with OUD.



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