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Assari S, Ahmadi K, Rezazade M. Socio-Economic Status Determines Risk of Receptive Syringe Sharing Behaviors among Iranian Drug Injectors; A National Study. Front Psychiatry. 2015;5:194doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00194.
Assari, S., Ahmadi, K., & Rezazade, M. (2014). Socio-Economic Status Determines Risk of Receptive Syringe Sharing Behaviors among Iranian Drug Injectors; A National Study. Frontiers in psychiatry, 5194. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00194
Assari, Shervin, et al. "Socio-Economic Status Determines Risk of Receptive Syringe Sharing Behaviors among Iranian Drug Injectors; A National Study." Frontiers in psychiatry vol. 5 (2014): 194. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00194
Assari S, Ahmadi K, Rezazade M. Socio-Economic Status Determines Risk of Receptive Syringe Sharing Behaviors among Iranian Drug Injectors; A National Study. Front Psychiatry. 2015 Mar 23;5:194. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00194. eCollection 2014. PMID: 25852577; PMCID: PMC4369970.
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Front Psychiatry. 2015 Mar 23;5:194. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00194. eCollection 2014.

Socio-Economic Status Determines Risk of Receptive Syringe Sharing Behaviors among Iranian Drug Injectors; A National Study.

Frontiers in psychiatry

Shervin Assari, Khodabakhsh Ahmadi, Majid Rezazade

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI , USA ; Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture, and Health (CRECH), School of Public Health, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI , USA ; Social Determinants of Health Research Center, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation , Tehran , Iran.
  2. Behavioral Sciences Research Center, Baqiyatallah University of Medical Sciences , Tehran , Iran.
  3. AIDS Prevention and Control Committee of Welfare Organization State , Tehran , Iran.

PMID: 25852577 PMCID: PMC4369970 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2014.00194

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although needle and syringe sharing is one of the main routs of transmission of HIV in several countries in the middle east, very little is known about how socio-economic status of injecting drug users (IDUs) is linked to the receptive syringe sharing behaviors in these countries.

AIM: To study socio-economic correlates of receptive needle and syringe sharing among IDUs in Iran.

METHODS: The study used data from the Unhide Risk Study, a national survey of IDUs. This study sampled 636 IDUs (91% male) via snowball sampling from eight provinces in Iran in 2009. Socio-demographic and drug use characteristics were collected. We used a logistic regression to determine factors associated with receptive needle and syringe sharing during the past 6 months.

RESULTS: From 636 IDUs enrolled in this study, 68% (n = 434) reported receptive needle and syringe sharing behaviors in the past 6 months. Odds of receptive needle and syringe sharing in the past 6 months was lower among IDUs who were male [odds ratios (OR) = 0.29, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 0.12-0.70], had higher education (OR = 0.74, 95% CI = 0.64-0.86) but higher among those who were unemployed (OR = 4.05, 95% CI = 1.50-10.94), and were single (OR = 1.47, 95% CI = 1.02-2.11).

CONCLUSION: This study presented factors associated with risk of receptive needle and syringe sharing among Iranian IDUs. This information may be used for HIV prevention and harm reduction purposes. Socio-economic status of Iranian IDUs may be closely linked to high-risk injecting behaviors among them.

Keywords: HIV; Iran; injection drug users; needle and syringe sharing; socio-demographics

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