title: Collaboration between community nurses and nursing faculty using substance abuse prevention focus groups.
abstract: Collaboration between community nurses and nurses from a university who conducted focus groups is discussed. The focus groups explored why low-income, inner-city, white women of childbearing age did not abuse drugs. This partnership effort resulted in positive, successful outcomes for both groups of nurses and yielded culturally sensitive information that may be useful in preventing substance abuse. Methods of facilitating this collaboration and results of our joint endeavors are explored.
authors.affiliation: College of Nursing, University of Massachusetts at Boston, USA.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reiskin
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gendrop
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bowen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Walsh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001294:Attitude to Health / Q000208:ethnology; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D017144:Focus Groups; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D009734:Nursing Faculty Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000523:psychology*; D011203:Poverty / Q000523:psychology; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000523:psychology; D014505:Urban Population; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology