Svenska Häktesprogrammet, Prevention, Risk Behaviour and Infectious Diseases Among IDU.
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Status
- Completed
- Sponsor
- Karolinska Institutet
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Number of participants with injection risk behaviour
Study Overview
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 Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Na
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
Eligibility Criteria
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
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
Arms & Interventions
Risk behaviour and infectious diseases
.(among IDU)
Intervention: Risk behaviour and infectious diseases (Behavioral)
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Number of participants with injection risk behaviour
Time Frame: 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 Outcomes
- Number of participants with infectious diseases(2002-2012)
Investigators
Niklas Karlsson
PhD candidate
Karolinska Institutet