The Ethnographic Accessing, Sampling and Screening of Hidden Populations: Heroin Sniffers in New York City

Sifaneck, Stephen J.; Neaigus, Alan

doi:10.3109/16066350109141130

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“…While we were able to use the social networks of our interviewers to recruit injecting drug users for the structured survey questionnaire, this may have introduced some element of bias. The ethnographic sample was recruited based on methods used among hidden populations of drug users that have been used in other countries (Sifaneck & Kaplan 1995;Sifaneck & Neaigus 2001). Both individual-based (targeted outreach recruiting) and chain-referral recruiting methods (such as participant-driven and snow ball sampling techniques) that were used in the ethnographic portion of the study need to be used in future studies in the Hungarian and the Central and Eastern European context to reduce selection bias.…”

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Injecting equipment sharing and perception of HIV and hepatitis risk among injecting drug users in Budapest

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In Central European states, rates of HIV among IDUs have been low although HCV infection is widespread. The goal of our study was to assess HIV infection, risk perceptions and injecting equipment sharing among injection drug users in Budapest, Hungary. Altogether 150 IDUs were interviewed (121 structured between 1999-2000 and 29 ethnographic between 2003-2004). The majority of them injected heroin (52% and 79%) and many injected amphetamines (51% and 35%). One person tested positive for HIV. Two thirds (68% of 121) shared injecting equipment (syringes, cookers and filters). Some participants said they shared syringes because they were not carrying them for fear of police harassment, and that they reused filters as a backup drug supply. In multivariate analysis, sharing of injecting equipment was associated with higher perceived susceptibility to HIV/ AIDS, lower self-efficacy for sterile equipment use, higher motivation to comply with peer pressure to use dirty injecting equipment, and with having a criminal record. The high levels of injecting risk behaviors found in this study are a cause for serious concern. HIV prevention interventions need to address not only sharing syringes but also sharing and reusing other injecting equipment and drug filters.

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Injecting equipment sharing and perception of HIV and hepatitis risk among injecting drug users in Budapest

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“…Research on so-called hidden populations, particularly those involved in illegal drug markets, generally uses the snowball sampling technique [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43]. Snowball sampling does not require a large population to obtain an acceptable level of validity for the research [37,39].…”

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Yield and turnover of illicit indoor cannabis (Cannabis spp.) plantations in Belgium

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“…Participants were recruited from nondrug-treatment settings, although some may have been in drug treatment at the time of recruitment. We utilized a combination of targeted outreach and chain-referral methods (Heckathorn, 1997;Sifaneck and Neaigus, 2001). We identified though key informants and ethnographic observations in the area of recruitment locations where drug users congregate.…”

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The Relationship of Sexual Dyad and Personal Network Characteristics and Individual Attributes to Unprotected Sex Among Young Injecting Drug Users

Gyarmathy

Neaigus

2007

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We examine in the heterosexual partnerships (dyads) of IDUs the correlates of engaging in unprotected sex on three levels: individual attributes, social network characteristics, and dyad characteristics. Unprotected sex was significantly less likely to occur in dyads where the participant injected daily or had high safe-sex attitude scores, and in dyads where both members encouraged each other to use condoms. Unprotected sex was significantly more likely to occur in dyads that smoked crack together, shared needles with each other, and where the participant knew that the sex partner had concurrent sex partners. In the sexual dyads of IDUs there is a combined risk of unsafe injecting and unsafe sex. Both injecting and sexual risk, and their combination need to be addressed in interventions that target the sexual partnerships of IDUs. Such interventions should also aim to reduce injected and non-injected crack and other stimulant use associated with high-risk sex.

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The Ethnographic Accessing, Sampling and Screening of Hidden Populations: Heroin Sniffers in New York City

Cited by 62 publications

References 27 publications

Injecting equipment sharing and perception of HIV and hepatitis risk among injecting drug users in Budapest

Injecting equipment sharing and perception of HIV and hepatitis risk among injecting drug users in Budapest

Yield and turnover of illicit indoor cannabis (Cannabis spp.) plantations in Belgium

The Relationship of Sexual Dyad and Personal Network Characteristics and Individual Attributes to Unprotected Sex Among Young Injecting Drug Users

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