Addressing Maternal Mortality Through Education: The Mommies Methadone Program

Stansbury and Newton discuss their study which aims to educate pregnant patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) about the effects of opioids in order to improve understanding and help achieve sustained abstinence. The Center for Health Care Services and University Hospital System (UHS) in San Antoni...

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Published inJournal of clinical outcomes management Vol. 27; no. 6; p. e4
Main Authors Stansbury, Nicholas, Newton, Luke
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Wayne Turner White Communications Inc 01.11.2020
Subjects
Drug abuse
Maternal mortality
Medical students
Narcotics
Pregnancy
United States > US
San Antonio Texas
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Summary:Stansbury and Newton discuss their study which aims to educate pregnant patients with opioid use disorder (OUD) about the effects of opioids in order to improve understanding and help achieve sustained abstinence. The Center for Health Care Services and University Hospital System (UHS) in San Antonio, TX, jointly operate a methadone clinic, the Mommies Program, for pregnant women with OUD. As part of this program, medical students discuss methadone use in pregnancy and the health effects of OUD on mother and child and review resources for sustained peripartum abstinence at prenatal visits with pregnant patients with OUD concurrently enrolled in the program. To evaluate the impact of this education intervention, students assessed patients' knowledge of methadone effects on mother and baby, state laws concerning heroin and methadone use in pregnancy, and motivation to quit using opioids with pre-and post-intervention surveys.
ISSN:1079-6533
1938-1336
DOI:10.12788/jcom.0032