Changes in Interest and Access to Opioid Medication Before and After Intervention, N=117

Matthew N. Ponticiello's dataset records changes in interest, perceived difficulty in accessing, and perceived importance of initiating medications for opioid use disorder before and after a brief intervention. The data covers 117 participants on probation with opioid use disorder. It was last updated on 2026-05-27 and is shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze changes in patient-reported interest in medication for opioid use disorder based on pre- and post-intervention survey data.
• Assess perceived barriers to accessing treatment based on reported difficulty in accessing medications.
• Evaluate the impact of a brief intervention on the perceived importance of initiating medication-assisted treatment.
• Study correlations between intervention outcomes and participant characteristics within a probation population.

Strengths

• Dataset is small at 5.5 KB, enabling quick download and inspection.
• Data is focused on a specific population of 117 participants on probation with opioid use disorder.
• Explicitly measures changes in three key behavioral constructs: interest, access difficulty, and importance.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Matthew N. Ponticiello

Collection Method

Likely collected via surveys from participants on probation with opioid use disorder before and after a brief intervention.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 17:22:19; freshness should be verified.