Titre : | The Staying Safe intervention: training people who inject drugs in strategies to avoid injection-related HCV and HIV infection (2014) |
Auteurs : | P. MATEU-GELABERT ; M. VIORST GWADZ ; H. GUARINO ; M. SANDOVAL ; C. M. CLELAND ; A. JORDAN ; H. HAGAN ; H. LUNE ; S. R. FRIEDMAN |
Type de document : | Article : Périodique |
Dans : | AIDS Education and Prevention (Vol.26, n°2, April 2014) |
Article en page(s) : | 144-157 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | PRE (Prévention - RdRD / Prevention - Harm reduction) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus géographique ETATS-UNISThésaurus mots-clés INTERVENTION ; REDUCTION DES RISQUES ET DES DOMMAGES ; INJECTION ; APPRENTISSAGE ; PROGRAMME ; EFFICACITE ; HEPATITE ; VIH ; EVALUATION |
Résumé : | This pilot study explores the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the Staying Safe Intervention, an innovative, strengths-based program to facilitate prevention of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus and with the hepatitis C virus among people who inject drugs (PWID). The authors explored changes in the intervention's two primary endpoints: (a) frequency and amount of drug intake, and (b) frequency of risky injection practices. We also explored changes in hypothesized mediators of intervention efficacy: planning skills, motivation/self-efficacy to inject safely, skills to avoid PWID-associated stigma, social support, drug-related withdrawal symptoms, and injection network size and risk norms. A 1-week, five-session intervention (10 hours total) was evaluated using a pre- versus 3-month posttest design. Fifty-one participants completed pre- and posttest assessments. Participants reported significant reductions in drug intake and injection-related risk behavior. Participants also reported significant increases in planning skills, motivation/self-efficacy, and stigma management strategies, while reducing their exposure to drug withdrawal episodes and risky injection networks. |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Affiliation : | National Development Research Institutes (NDRI) Inc., New York, NY, USA |
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