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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN66453696
ISRCTN66453696
Completed
Not Applicable

Feasibility of psychosocial interventions for preventing blood borne virus infection in people who inject drugs: a feasibility randomised controlled trial

King's College and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (UK)0 sites128 target enrollmentSeptember 24, 2014

Overview

Phase
Not Applicable
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Blood borne viruses among people who inject drugs
Sponsor
King's College and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (UK)
Enrollment
128
Status
Completed
Last Updated
8 years ago

Overview

Brief Summary

Registry
who.int
Start Date
September 24, 2014
End Date
May 31, 2016
Last Updated
8 years ago
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Sponsor
King's College and the Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1\. PWID are aged 18 and older attending NHS and third sector community addiction and harm reduction clinics and needle exchange programmes (static and mobile)
  • 2\. Who have injected drugs at least once in the past 4 weeks
  • 3\. Who plan to stay in the area for the next 3 months
  • 4\. Who are able to complete the assessment (alone or with help of researcher) and communicate in a group intervention in English.
  • PWID are not routinely screened for BBV at drug treatment services \& therefore do not always know their BBV status. As the focus of the proposed psychosocial intervention will be to increase knowledge about transmission/ reinfection \& promote motivation/skills for safer injecting \& sex practices, the intervention content will be the same regardless of BBV status.

Exclusion Criteria

  • PWID who are too intoxicated or in withdrawal to give informed consent.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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