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Correlates of injectionârelated wounds and skin infections amongst persons who inject drugs and use a syringe service programme: A single center study
- Source :
- International Wound Journal
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2021.
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Abstract
- Risk factors associated with wounds and skin infections amongst persons who inject drugs may have changed in the era of fentanyl and now stimulant coinjection. We assessed the number of injection site wounds and skin infections and associated factors amongst 675 persons who inject drugs in a syringe services programme. Of this sample, 173 participants reported a total of 307 wounds and skin infections. Significant factors associated with increased number of wounds and skin infections were age 30 or older, female gender, ever experiencing homelessness, cocaine injection, and injecting between 5 and 10 years. Wounds and skin infections were common amongst syringe services programme clients and are associated with certain risk factors that may help to design effective interventions. Given the high prevalence of wounds in syringe services programme clients, wound care clinicians can make a significant difference and improve outcomes. We also shed light on correlates of wounds and skin infections in persons who inject drugs in order to spur further research to devise efficacious interventions for this underserved group.
- Subjects :
- Adult
medicine.medical_specialty
Psychological intervention
HIV Infections
Dermatology
Skin infection
Single Center
Drug Users
030207 dermatology & venereal diseases
03 medical and health sciences
Wound care
0302 clinical medicine
Effective interventions
syringe service programmes
injection drug use
medicine
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Skin Diseases, Infectious
Substance Abuse, Intravenous
Syringe
High prevalence
integumentary system
business.industry
Syringes
Significant difference
Original Articles
medicine.disease
Pharmaceutical Preparations
Emergency medicine
Surgery
Original Article
Female
business
cutaneous wounds
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1742481X and 17424801
- Volume :
- 18
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Wound Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cdb4f8a46e7611511108c03da376c695