Abstract
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 I-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.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 144-157 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | AIDS Education and Prevention |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| State | Published - 2014 |
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- Infectious Diseases
- Health(social science)
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The staying safe intervention : Training people who inject drugs in strategies to avoid injection-related HCV and HIV infection. / Mateu-Gelabert, Pedro; Viorst Gvvadz, Marya; Guarino, Honoria; Sandoval, Milagros; Cleland, Charles M.; Jordan, Ashly; Hagan, Holly; Lune, Howard; Friedman, Samuel R.
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