An examination of injecting behaviour among injecting drug users in West Suffolk after a safer injecting training session, using a pre- and post-test survey design

ISRCTN	ISRCTN65629191
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN65629191
Secondary identifying numbers	N0029134729

Submission date: 30/09/2004
Registration date: 30/09/2004
Last edited: 30/03/2020

Recruitment status: No longer recruiting
Overall study status: Completed
Condition category: Mental and Behavioural Disorders

Prospectively registered

Protocol

Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Record updated in last year

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Contact information

Mr Paul Townsend
Scientific

Clinical Nurse Specialist
West Suffolk Drugs Service
Blomfield House
Looms Lane
Bury St Edmunds
IP33 1HE
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)1284 775275
Email	abc@email.com

Study information

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Other
Study type	Other
Scientific title	An examination of injecting behaviour among injecting drug users in West Suffolk after a safer injecting training session, using a pre- and post-test survey design
Study objectives	How does a safer injecting training session alter injecting behaviour of injecting drug users
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Drug abuse
Intervention	Sample of 50 subjects will be randomly assigned to a control group of 25 and a treatment group of 25. A pre-test questionnaire will be completed by all 50 subjects. The treatment group will receive a safer injecting training session lasting one hour which will include routes of administration, overview of the cardiovascular system, health risk of injecting street drugs and preparation of drugs and injecting equipment. One month after the training session a repeat questionnaire on injecting behaviour will be completed by all 50 subjects. The sample will be generated through a snowball technique.
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	Analysis will examine the change in magnitude in the variable of interest in each group between baseline and follow-up measurements. Impact analysis will be used to attribute causal influence to the safer injecting training.
Secondary outcome measures	Not provided at time of registration
Overall study start date	01/02/2004
Completion date	01/09/2004

Eligibility

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Adult
Lower age limit	18 Years
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	50
Key inclusion criteria	T1. he sample group will be selected from clients who inject drugs and who are accessing treatment from the West Suffolk Drugs Service. 2. All clients participating to be over 18 years old and younger than 65 years old.
Key exclusion criteria	Does not meet inclusion criteria
Date of first enrolment	01/02/2004
Date of final enrolment	01/09/2004

Locations

Countries of recruitment

England
United Kingdom

Study participating centre

Clinical Nurse Specialist

Bury St Edmunds
IP33 1HE
United Kingdom

Sponsor information

Department of Health
Government

Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom

Website	http://www.dh.gov.uk/Home/fs/en

Funders

Funder type

Not defined

Local Health Partnerships NHS Trust

No information available

Results and Publications

Intention to publish date
Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
IPD sharing plan

Editorial Notes

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