Modern aspects of seeking drug treatment for alcohol-associated diseases: expert assessment of practitioners

Abstract

The use of the method of expert assessments is an indispensable element of the search for reserves to improve the quality and safety of medical activities for the realization of strategic tasks in the field of population conservation and improvement of health indicators of the Russian population.The purpose of the study was to assess the factors influencing the appeal for drug treatment of alcohol–associated diseases in state medical organizations on the model of a large agro-industrial region.Materials and methods. Anonymous sociological survey was conducted in 2022. 135 doctorsspecialist in the field of “Psychiatry-narcology” working in outpatient or inpatient units of the public health system of the Krasnodar region. The following methods were applied in this study: sociological, statistical, content analysis, expert assessments.Results. The representative group of experts was characterized by a predominance of female doctors (57,0 %), persons aged 40–49 years (25.2 %) with a qualification category (76.3 %), with more than 15 years of work experience in the specialty “Psychiatry-narcology” (58.5 %). The organization of drug treatment in outpatient settings was rated “good” and “excellent” by 54.8 % of respondents, in inpatient – 71.1 %. According to experts, the factors of legal restrictions, public censure, as well as defects in the self-assessment of the nosological status of patients and the lack of general medical literacy of the population had the greatest impact on the decrease in the incidence of drug treatment for alcohol-related pathology.Conclusion. The potential aspects of possible directions for selective influence in order to increase the appeal of the population with addictive alcohol disorders to specialized professionals and the preservation of human resources were identified.