title: Resilience among IDUs: planning strategies to help injection drug users to protect themselves and others from HIV/HCV infections.
abstract: Many long-term injection drug users (IDUs) engage in planning strategies. In this pilot study, we examine the relation of one planning strategy to IDUs' engaging in safer injection practices. Sixty-eight IDUs were recruited in 2010 from a New York City (NYC) needle exchange program and referrals to participate in an innovative Staying Safe Intervention that teaches strategies to stay HIV/HCV uninfected. Responses to a baseline 185-item survey were analyzed using correlations and odds ratios. Planning ahead to have steady access to clean equipment was correlated with both individually based and networks-based safety behaviors including storing clean needles; avoiding sharing needles, cookers, and filters with other injectors; and providing clean needles to sex partners. Implications related to resilience in IDUs are discussed and the study's limitations have been noted.
authors.affiliation: Institute for AIDS Research, National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), New York, New York 10010, USA. Skultip@gmail.com
authors.forename: Skultip
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sirikantraporn
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mateu-Gelabert
authors.forename: Samuel R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Friedman
authors.forename: Milagros
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sandoval
authors.forename: Rafael A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Torruella
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006293:Health Promotion; D006526:Hepatitis C / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009519:New York City; D010865:Pilot Projects; D055500:Resilience, Psychological; D012307:Risk Factors; D015819:Substance Abuse, Intravenous / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult