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NCT Number: NCT02234167

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

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.

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Key information

Conditions

Having Ever Injected Drugs

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

SHP

Stockholm, Sweden

About this study

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.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Treatment and study plan

Risk behaviour and infectious diseases

Behavioral

through counselling, testing vaccination

Other names: biological and behavioural

Primary outcomes

  1. Number of participants with injection risk behaviour

    Time frame: 2002-2012

    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

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of participants with infectious diseases

    Time frame: 2002-2012

    HIV, HCV, HBV and STI

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Karolinska Institutet

Other

Collaborators

  • Linkoeping University
  • Public Health Agency of Sweden
  • Swedish Prison and Probation Service

Registry information

Official study title

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

Acronym: SHP

Important dates

Study start
2002
Primary completion
2013
Study completion
2013
First posted
Sep 9, 2014
Registry last updated
Sep 17, 2020

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