Attitudes toward Needle "Sharing" among Injection Drug Users: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Research Methods

摘要: Ethnographers working with injection drug users in U.S. AIDS prevention projects have found that these generally prefer not to use each other's needles and do conceive of needle "sharing" (transfer) as a key dimension their identity. To date, findings been based primarily on qualitative ethnographic methods. We operationalized users' values toward transfer administered questionnaire 276 active injectors recruited 1993 for the Dayton/Columbus, Ohio, Prevention Research Project. About 71% sample were African American, 28.6% white, 77.9% male. The results confirm evidence. For example, 96% disagreed statement: "When shooting up other people, I feel like same outfit everyone else uses." Only 16.3% perceived new inaccesible, while 72.8% feared carrying because paraphernalia laws. This study demonstrates value combining qualit...