Hospital-versus Community-Based Syringe Exchange: A Randomized Controlled Trial  

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Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Aids Education and Prevention: An Interdisciplinary Journal vol. 19 no. 02 (Apr. 2007), page 97.
Topik: IDU; Injection Drug User; Hospital-based; Community-Based; Syringe

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: A94 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This study examined the effect of syringe exchange program setting on the injectionpractices, health status, and health service utilixation patterns of injection drug users (IDUs) recruited from a public urban hospital. One hundred sixty-six participants were randomized to either community-or hospital-based syringe exchange services. Poisson regression models were used to compare service utilization between groups. In both conditions, risky drug use practices decreased and physical health functioning improved over time. Hospital-based syringe exchange program (SEP) attendees had 83% more inpatient admissions (p<.0001) and 22% more ambulatory care visits (p<.0001) than those assigned to the community-based SEP conditiion. Syringe exchange services that are integrated into public hospital settings may serve as a valuable strategy to engage hard to reach IDU populations in behavioral interventions designed to reduce HIV risk transmission behaviors and increase ccess to, or engangement in, the use of secondary and tertiary preventive medical care.

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