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Document 0915
DOCN M9620915
TI The preparedness to share injecting equipment: an analysis using
vignettes.
DT 9602
AU McKeganey N; Abel M; Taylor A; Frischer M; Goldberg D; Green S; Centre
for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow, UK.
SO Addiction. 1995 Sep;90(9):1253-60. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
MED/96019279
AB This paper reports on the use of vignettes to study drug injectors'
preparedness to share injecting equipment. Separate vignettes referring
to borrowing and passing on injecting equipment have been submitted to
505 injecting drug users in Glasgow. Injectors were asked to identify
their own likely response in each of the situations described within the
vignettes. It was shown that even among those injectors not reporting
any actual sharing in the last 6 months a significant proportion would
still be prepared to share injecting equipment within certain
situations. The preparedness to share injecting equipment was seen to be
influenced by such factors as social distance, sex and length of time
injecting. It is suggested that even in situations where drug injectors
may have modified their behaviour in the direction of lower levels of
reported sharing, a propensity to share may remain. This suggests the
continuing need to provide injectors with easy access to sterile
injecting equipment; in addition, services working with injecting drug
users may need to focus not only upon actual sharing behaviour but also
upon what we have described here as the preparedness to share. Indeed,
the latter dimension should stand as a warning to services of the
potential for sharing injecting equipment to increase in the future.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION Adult Female Health Behavior Human
Interpersonal Relations Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice Male
*Motivation Needle Sharing/*PSYCHOLOGY Needle-Exchange Programs
Personality Assessment Scotland Sexual Partners Substance Abuse,
Intravenous/*PSYCHOLOGY/REHABILITATION Support, Non-U.S. Gov't JOURNAL
ARTICLE
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).