tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học: " Getting the message straight: effects of a brief hepatitis prevention intervention among injection drug users"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Getting the message straight: effects of a brief hepatitis prevention intervention among injection drug users | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Open Access Brief report Getting the message straight effects of a brief hepatitis prevention intervention among injection drug users Lauretta E Grau 11 Traci C Green11 Merrill Singer2 3 Ricky N Bluthenthal4 Patricia A Marshall5 and Robert Heimer1 Address Department of Epidemiology and Public Health Yale University School of Medicine New Haven CT USA 2Center for Health Intervention and Prevention CHIP University of Connecticut 2006 Hillside Road Unit 1248 Storrs CT 06269-1248 USA 3Department of Anthropology University of Connecticut Storrs CT 06269-2176 USA 4Health Program and Drug Policy Research Center RAND Santa Monica CA USA and 5Department of Medical Humanities Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Cleveland OH USA Email Lauretta E Grau - Traci C Green - Merrill Singer - anthro8566@ Ricky N Bluthenthal - rickyb@ Patricia A Marshall - pam20@ Robert Heimer - Corresponding author fEqual contributors Published 15 December 2009 Received 30 January 2009 Accepted 15 December 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009 6 36 doi l 477-7517-6-36 This article is available from http content 6 1 36 2009 Grau et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract To redress gaps in injection drug users IDUs knowledge about hepatitis risk and prevention we developed a brief intervention to be delivered to IDUs at syringe exchange programs SEPs in three US cities. Following a month-long campaign in which intervention packets containing novel injection hygiene supplies and written materials were distributed to every client at each visit intervention .