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      Attitudes of Black American Christian church leaders toward Opioid Use Disorder, overdoses, and harm reduction: a qualitative study

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          Introduction

          Black American Christian church leaders are trusted community members and can be invaluable leaders and planners, listeners, and counselors for Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) sufferers in the opioid overdose crisis disproportionately affecting the Black community. This qualitative study examines the extent to which the knowledge, attitudes, practices, and beliefs of Black American church leaders support medical and harm reduction interventions for people with OUD.

          Methods

          A semi-structured interview guide was used to conduct in-depth interviews of 30 Black Rhode Island church leaders recruited by convenience and snowball sampling.

          Results

          Thematic analysis of the interviews identified four themes: Church leaders are empathetic and knowledgeable, believe that hopelessness and inequity are OUD risk factors, are committed to helping people flourish beyond staying alive, and welcome collaborations between church and state.

          Conclusion

          Black American Christian church leaders are a critical resource in providing innovative and culturally sensitive strategies in the opioid overdose crisis affecting the Black American communities. As such, their views should be carefully considered in OUD policies, collaborations, and interventions in the Black American community.

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                Akosua B. Dankwah: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/2608478Role: Role: Role: Role: Role:
                Richard B. Siegrist Jr.: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/1947538Role: Role: Role:
                Ira B. Wilson: URI : https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/462079Role: Role:
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                Journal
                Journal ID (nlm-ta): Front Psychiatry
                Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Front Psychiatry
                Journal ID (publisher-id): Front. Psychiatry
                Title: Frontiers in Psychiatry
                Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
                ISSN (Electronic): 1664-0640
                Publication date (Electronic): 03 April 2024
                Publication date Collection: 2024
                Volume: 15
                Electronic Location Identifier: 1359826
                Affiliations
                [1] 1 Department of Psychiatry, Recovery Research Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School , Boston, MA, United States
                [2] 2 Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , Boston, MA, United States
                [3] 3 Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University School of Public Health , Providence, RI, United States
                [4] 4 Department of Medicine, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University , Providence, RI, United States
                [5] 5 Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Opioids and Overdose, Rhode Island Hospital , Providence, RI, United States
                Author notes

                Edited by: Cornelis De Jong, Radboud University, Netherlands

                Reviewed by: Omid Massah, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Iran

                Sasidhar Gunturu, Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center, United States

                *Correspondence: Akosua B. Dankwah, adankwah@ 123456mgh.harvard.edu
                Article
                DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1359826
                PMC ID: 11021723
                PubMed ID: 38633031
                SO-VID: dc15b7a1-078e-48d9-8076-b495df0acd28
                Copyright © Copyright © 2024 Dankwah, Siegrist, Wilson, McKenzie and Rich
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                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.

                History
                Date received : 22 December 2023
                Date accepted : 11 March 2024
                Page count
                Figures: 0, Tables: 1, Equations: 0, References: 46, Pages: 9, Words: 5370
                Funding
                The author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This research was supported by a fellowship award through the Recovery Research Institute, Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R24DA051988) of the National Institutes of Health, a grant from the Center for Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) on Opioids and Overdose (P20GM125507), and a fellowship from the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human rights. Dr. IW is partially supported by the Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (P30AI042853) and by Institutional Development Award Number U54GM115677 from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health, which funds Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR) from the Rhode Island IDeA-CTR award. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
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                Subject: Psychiatry
                Subject: Original Research
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                section-in-acceptance Addictive Disorders

                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: opioid use disorder,opioid overdose,black american,qualitative,christian,church leaders,harm reduction,clergy
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                ScienceOpen disciplines: Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                Keywords: opioid use disorder, opioid overdose, black american, qualitative, christian, church leaders, harm reduction, clergy

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