Identifying Barriers and Facilitators to Implementing a Community Drug-Checking App among the Department of Health and Diverse Communities of People Who Use Drugs in Fulton County, GA
Principal Investigators:
Sarah Febres-Cordero, BSN, MS, PhD | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Beatrice King, BA, MS | Fulton County Board of Health
Co-Investigator:
Athena Sherman, PhD, PhN, RN | Emory University, Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Research Gap:
The StreetCheck app is new and facilitators and barriers of implementing StreetCheck with our Communities of Practice are currently unknown.
Description:
This is an 18-month pilot project to assess facilitators and barriers to implementing StreetCheck with our Communities of Practice (CoP). The goal of this project is to partner broadly with CoP to promote health equity and characterize and evaluate implementation gaps, barriers, and facilitators among CoP for the acceptability of drug-checking services (DCS), and StreetCheck guided by the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research (CFIR).
Aims:
- Interview key stakeholders at Emory University, the Department of Health, and harm reduction agencies to assess barriers and facilitators to implementing StreetCheck and drug-checking services.
- Assess people who use drugs’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and access to drug checking and app usage via a brief survey to characterize and evaluate implementation gaps, barriers, facilitators, of DCS.
- Engage people who use or may use drug checking supplies from diverse populations to assess attitudes, beliefs, and expectancies about the mobile-based application, StreetCheck through individual interviews.
Why is this study important?
The findings of this study can potentially improve the implementation and uptake of the StreetCheck app in Georgia and beyond.
