The Swedish Prison Program is an Intervention Prevention Program Targeting Injecting Drug Users Risk Behaviours and Infectious Diseases (SHP)

Svenska Häktesprogrammet, Prevention, Risk Behaviour and Infectious Diseases Among IDU.

The purpose of the Swedish Prison Program which started back in 1987 and up until 2009 was called "The Social Medicine Remand Prison Project" is to target injecting drug users (IDU) with primary and secondary health interventions with regards to injecting and sexual risk behaviours and infectious diseases such as hepatitis C and B, HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI).

The overall aim is to assess the effect of different prevention efforts on HIV/HCV risk behaviour and disease outcome among IDUs over time.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Having Ever Injected Drugs
• Intervention / Treatment: Behavioral: Risk behaviour and infectious diseases

Detailed Description

Risk behaviour for IDU is sexual risk taking, i.e., sex without a condom, buying or selling sex and injection risk taking, i.e., sharing needle, syringe or paraphernalia.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Sweden
  • Stockholm, Sweden
    • SHP

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Defined as an injecting drug user, in the prison and probation service and agree to anonymously participate

Exclusion Criteria:

• Being defined as a non-drug user, non-injecting drug user

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Prevention
• Allocation: N/A

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Other: Risk behaviour and infectious diseases; .(among IDU)	Behavioral: Risk behaviour and infectious diseases; through counselling, testing vaccination; Other Names: biological and behavioural

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants with injection risk behaviour	Have you received already used injection equipment from someone last 12 months Have you lent (away) already used injection equipment to someone last 12 months Have you shared solution and/or filter with someone last 12 months Number of people shared needles with last month Number of injections last month Number of Hepatitis C positive Number of HIV positive Number of Hepatitis B positive Number of respondenst positive for sexually transmitted infections	2002-2012

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Number of participants with infectious diseases	HIV, HCV, HBV and STI	2002-2012

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Karolinska Institutet
• Collaborators: Linkoeping University; Public Health Agency of Sweden; Swedish Prison and Probation Service

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• Karlsson N, Santacatterina M, Kall K, Hagerstrand M, Wallin S, Berglund T, Ekstrom AM. Risk behaviour determinants among people who inject drugs in Stockholm, Sweden over a 10-year period, from 2002 to 2012. Harm Reduct J. 2017 Aug 16;14(1):57. doi: 10.1186/s12954-017-0184-8.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: April 1, 2002
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 1, 2013
• Study Completion (Actual): December 31, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 4, 2014
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 8, 2014
• First Posted (Estimate): September 9, 2014

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 17, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 16, 2020
• Last Verified: September 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Infections; Communicable Diseases
• Other Study ID Numbers: Swedish Prison Program