Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Safe using messages may not be enough to promote behaviour change amongst injecting drug users who are ambivalent or indifferent towards death | Harm Reduction Journal BioMed Central Research Safe using messages may not be enough to promote behaviour change amongst injecting drug users who are ambivalent or indifferent towards death Peter G Miller Open Access Address School of Psychology Faculty of Health Medicine Nursing and Behavioural Sciences Deakin University Waterfront campus Level 3 27 Brougham Street Geelong Victoria 3217 Australia Email Peter G Miller - Published 25 July 2009 Received 6 January 2009 Harm Reduction Journal 2009 6 18 doi 1477-7517-6-18 Accepted 25 July 2009 This article is available from http content 6 1 18 2009 Miller 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 Background Health promotion strategies ultimately rely on people perceiving the consequences of their behaviour as negative. If someone is indifferent towards death it would logically follow that health promotion messages such as safe using messages would have little resonance. This study aimed to investigate attitudes towards death in a group of injecting drug users IDUs and how such attitudes may impact upon the efficacy relevance of safe using health promotion messages. Methods Qualitative semi-structured interviews in Geelong Australia with 60 regular heroin users recruited primarily from needle and syringe programs. Results Over half of the interviewees reported having previously overdosed and 35 reported not engaging in any overdose prevention practices. 13 had never been tested for either HIV or hepatitis C. Just under half reported needle sharing of some description and almost all 97 reported previously sharing other injecting equipment. Many interviewees reported being indifferent towards death. .
