"Talk About It!" Shared Decision-Making for Methadone and Buprenorphine Initiation: Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Conversation Aid via Community-Based Participatory Research.

Key Points

• To develop and evaluate a conversation aid for supporting shared decision-making in opioid addiction treatment.
• Developed content with input from people with lived experience (PWLE), emergency department (ED) clinicians, and addiction experts
• Refined the conversation aid through collaborative workshops
• Conducted preliminary evaluation using community-based participatory research
• The content and style of the conversation aid were approved by stakeholders
• Further testing is needed to assess its effectiveness in practice.