       Document 0915
 DOCN  M9620915
 TI    The preparedness to share injecting equipment: an analysis using
       vignettes.
 DT    9602
 AU    McKeganey N; Abel M; Taylor A; Frischer M; Goldberg D; Green S; Centre
       for Drug Misuse Research, University of Glasgow, UK.
 SO    Addiction. 1995 Sep;90(9):1253-60. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96019279
 AB    This paper reports on the use of vignettes to study drug injectors'
       preparedness to share injecting equipment. Separate vignettes referring
       to borrowing and passing on injecting equipment have been submitted to
       505 injecting drug users in Glasgow. Injectors were asked to identify
       their own likely response in each of the situations described within the
       vignettes. It was shown that even among those injectors not reporting
       any actual sharing in the last 6 months a significant proportion would
       still be prepared to share injecting equipment within certain
       situations. The preparedness to share injecting equipment was seen to be
       influenced by such factors as social distance, sex and length of time
       injecting. It is suggested that even in situations where drug injectors
       may have modified their behaviour in the direction of lower levels of
       reported sharing, a propensity to share may remain. This suggests the
       continuing need to provide injectors with easy access to sterile
       injecting equipment; in addition, services working with injecting drug
       users may need to focus not only upon actual sharing behaviour but also
       upon what we have described here as the preparedness to share. Indeed,
       the latter dimension should stand as a warning to services of the
       potential for sharing injecting equipment to increase in the future.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/PREVENTION & CONTROL/
       PSYCHOLOGY/TRANSMISSION  Adult  Female  Health Behavior  Human
       Interpersonal Relations  Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice  Male
       *Motivation  Needle Sharing/*PSYCHOLOGY  Needle-Exchange Programs
       Personality Assessment  Scotland  Sexual Partners  Substance Abuse,
       Intravenous/*PSYCHOLOGY/REHABILITATION  Support, Non-U.S. Gov't  JOURNAL
       ARTICLE

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