Training drug treatment patients to conduct peer-based HIV outreach: an ethnographic perspective on peers' experiences.
From 2005 to 2008, the Bienvenidos Project trained Puerto Rican patients of New York City and New Jersey Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs to conduct peer-based community outreach to migrant Puerto Rican drug users to reduce migrants' HIV risk behaviors. Ethnographic research, including focus groups, individual interviews, and observations, was conducted with a subset of the patients trained as peers (n = 49; 67% male; mean age 40.3 years) to evaluate the self-perceived effects of the intervention. Results of the ethnographic component of this study are summarized. The role of ethnographic methods in implementing and evaluating this kind of intervention is also discussed.
National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), Center for Technology and Health/Center for Drug Use & HIV Research, New York, New York 10010, USA. guarino@ndri.org
Honoria
H
Guarino
Sherry
S
Deren
Milton
M
Mino
Sung-Yeon
SY
Kang
Michele G
MG
Shedlin
D000328:Adult; D000884:Anthropology, Cultural; D055030:Drug Users / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006630:Hispanic or Latino / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000379:methods*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D012309:Risk-Taking; D014171:Transients and Migrants; D014481:United States / Q000208:ethnology