The Swedish Prison Program is an Intervention Prevention Program Targeting Injecting Drug Users Risk Behaviours and Infectious Diseases

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Having Ever Injected Drugs
• Interventions: Behavioral: Risk behaviour and infectious diseases

• Registration Number: NCT02234167
• Lead Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet

Brief Summary

The purpose of the Swedish Prison Program which started back in 1987 and up until 2009 was called "The Social Medicine Remand Prison Project" is to target injecting drug users (IDU) with primary and secondary health interventions with regards to injecting and sexual risk behaviours and infectious diseases such as hepatitis C and B, HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI).

The overall aim is to assess the effect of different prevention efforts on HIV/HCV risk behaviour and disease outcome among IDUs over time.

Detailed Description

Risk behaviour for IDU is sexual risk taking, i.e., sex without a condom, buying or selling sex and injection risk taking, i.e., sharing needle, syringe or paraphernalia.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2002-04
• Primary Completion: 2013-12
• Study Completion: 2013-12-31
• Study First Submitted: 2014-04-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-09-08
• Study First Posted: 2014-09-09
• Status Verified: 2020-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2020-09-16
• Last Update Posted: 2020-09-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: Not specified

Inclusion Criteria

• Defined as an injecting drug user, in the prison and probation service and agree to anonymously participate

Exclusion Criteria

• Being defined as a non-drug user, non-injecting drug user

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Risk behaviour and infectious diseases	Risk behaviour and infectious diseases	.(among IDU)

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of participants with injection risk behaviour	2002-2012	Have you received already used injection equipment from someone last 12 months Have you lent (away) already used injection equipment to someone last 12 months Have you shared solution and/or filter with someone last 12 months Number of people shared needles with last month Number of injections last month Number of Hepatitis C positive Number of HIV positive Number of Hepatitis B positive Number of respondenst positive for sexually transmitted infections

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Number of participants with infectious diseases	2002-2012	HIV, HCV, HBV and STI

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

SHP; 🇸🇪 Stockholm, Sweden