Individual and Socio-Environmental Factors Associated with Unsafe Injection Practices Among Young Adult Injection Drug Users in San Diego

Autor: Richard S. Garfein, Jose Luis Burgos, Fatima Muñoz, Eyasu H. Teshale, Jazmine Cuevas-Mota
Rok vydání: 2014
Předmět:
Male
Risk perception
Health Knowledge
Attitudes
Practice
Psychological intervention
HIV Infections
California
Hepatitis
Heroin
Drug Users
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Paraphernalia
Risk Factors
Medicine
Needle Sharing
Young adult
Substance Abuse
Intravenous
Practice
education.field_of_study
Hepatitis C virus
Health Knowledge
Liver Disease
Substance Abuse
virus diseases
Advertising
Hepatitis C
Infectious Diseases
Public Health and Health Services
HIV/AIDS
Female
Public Health
Intravenous
Infection
medicine.drug
Drug Abuse (NIDA Only)
Social Work
Social Psychology
Chronic Liver Disease and Cirrhosis
Population
Directive Counseling
Health Promotion
Article
Young Adult
Risk-Taking
Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Clinical Research
Environmental health
Behavioral and Social Science
mental disorders
Humans
education
Needle sharing
business.industry
Public Health
Environmental and Occupational Health
medicine.disease
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Cross-Sectional Studies
Injection drug use
Attitudes
Unsafe injection practices
Digestive Diseases
business
Zdroj: AIDS and behavior, vol 19, iss 1
Munoz, F; Burgos, JL; Cuevas-Mota, J; Teshale, E; & Garfein, RS. (2015). Individual and Socio-Environmental Factors Associated with Unsafe Injection Practices Among Young Adult Injection Drug Users in San Diego. AIDS AND BEHAVIOR, 19(1), 199-210. doi: 10.1007/s10461-014-0815-y. UC San Diego: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9fs9g5cg
ISSN: 1573-3254
1090-7165
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-014-0815-y
Popis: Unsafe injection practices significantly increase the risk of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among injection drug users (IDUs). We examined individual and socio-environmental factors associated with unsafe injection practices in young adult IDUs in San Diego, California. Of 494 IDUs, 46.9 % reported receptive syringe sharing and 68.8 % sharing drug preparation paraphernalia in the last 3 months. Unsafe injection practices were associated with increased odds of having friends who injected drugs with used syringes, injecting with friends or sexual partners, and injecting heroin. Perceived high susceptibility to HIV and perceived barriers to obtaining sterile syringes were associated with increased odds of receptive syringe sharing, but not with sharing injection paraphernalia. Over half the IDUs reported unsafe injection practices. Our results suggest that personal relationships might influence IDUs' perceptions that dictate behavior. Integrated interventions addressing individual and socio-environmental factors are needed to promote safe injection practices in this population.
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