Tailoring Overdose Education for Black Churches
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Conditions studied: Opioid Overdose
In brief
Church-based interventions are culturally acceptable, reduce access barriers, and can be brought to scale in under-resourced communities. For Overdose Education and Naloxone Distribution (OEND) to be efficacious in Black churches, tailoring may be needed. For this audience, standard OEND curricula may need to be adapted to their level of knowledge of substance use disorders (SUDs), and limited general mental health literacy, and specifically address stigma related to SUDs and medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD). Finally, a tailored implementation strategy may need to address contextual variations (e.g., denomination and membership size) across churches. The proposed pilot study aims to identify the socio-cultural modifications that will be needed to adapt our previously developed training (i.e., COEST) to target Black communities of faith. In a pilot randomized controlled trial (RTC) of adapted COEST in a stepped-wedge design.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT05645016
- Run by
- New York State Psychiatric Institute
- People needed
- 0
- Starts
- 2023-04-01
- Expected to finish
- 2027-03-30
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-04-02
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Identify as one of the following group members of the Black church: Clergy; Individual with OUD and/or stimulant use disorder; Family member or friend of an individual with OUD; Formerly incarcerated.
- Age 18 and older.
You may not qualify if…
- Unable to provide informed consent.
- Less than 18 years old.
- Does not identify as belonging to one of the four stakeholder groups.
Where it is running
- New York State Psychiatric Institute — New York, New York, United States
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