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Relationship among gender, depression and needle sharing in a sample of injection drug users (2002)
(Relations entre sexe, dépression et partage de seringue dans un échantillon d'usagers de drogues par injection)
Auteur(s) :
M. E. JOHNSON ;
YEP M. J. ;
C. BREMS ;
THENO S. A. ;
D. G. FISHER
Article en page(s) :
338-341
Refs biblio. :
32
Domaine :
Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Discipline :
PSY (Psychopathologie / Psychopathology)
Note générale :
Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 2002, 16, (4), 338-341
Résumé :
The authors explored the relationships among gender, needle sharing, and depression in a sample of 392 male and 121 female street drug users. Using the Risk Behavior Assessment (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1991) and the Beck Depression Inventory-2 (A. T. Beck, R. A. Steer, & G. K. Brown, 1996), the authors found that women reported higher levels of depression than men and that sharers endorsed higher levels of depression than nonsharers. Further, the authors found that female sharers reported the highest levels of depression of all groups, that is, as compared with male sharers, female nonsharers, and male nonsharers, who did not differ from one another. This suggests the presence of a special dynamic between gender and depression that is related to higher rates of needle sharing among women. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Dprt of Psychology, 3211 Providence Drive, Anchorage, Alaska 99508.
Etats-Unis. United States.
Etats-Unis. United States.