Injecting-related trust, cooperation, intimacy, and power as key factors influencing risk perception among drug injecting partnerships.

ABSTRACT: Sharing of injection drug use paraphernalia is a dyadic process linked to the transmission of HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Despite this, limited research exists identifying specific dyadic interpersonal factors driving injecting partners' engagement in needle/syringe and ancillary injecting equipment sharing among young adults. Using semi-structured in-depth interview data collected between 2014 and 2015 from twenty-seven people who inject drugs (PWID), we applied an inductive approach to identify key injection drug-related interpersonal factors and developed a conceptual model integrating the findings based on interdependence theory. Interactions between injecting partners resulted in varying levels of injecting-related trust, cooperation, intimacy, and power. These factors interacted

SUBMITTER: Morris MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6544289 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature