Area of interest | Variables collected | Details |
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Demographic and social characteristics | Gender | 1Questions from the criminality section of the Opiate Treatment Index (OTI) were used to measure prevalence of property crime, violent crime, drug dealing and fraud in the past month |
Date of birth | ||
Education status | ||
Employment history | ||
Income | ||
Current living circumstances | ||
Country of birth | ||
Language spoken at home | ||
Indigenous status | ||
Criminal activity (including OTI1) | ||
Incarceration history | ||
Dug use characteristics | Age at injecting initiation | 2The Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) was developed by the World Health Organisation as a brief assessment tool to identify hazardous and harmful patterns of alcohol consumption, focussing primarily on symptoms occurring in the recent past |
Pattern of drug use at injecting initiation | ||
Alcohol use (AUDIT2) | ||
Drug use history | ||
Current drug use | ||
Drug market access and purchase characteristics | ||
Drug treatment history | ||
Social networks | ||
Health and social functioning | Height | 3The Short-Form 8 (SF-8) assesses physical and mental health over the past month based on questions covering eight domains: physical functioning, role limitations due to physical health, bodily pain, general health perceptions, vitality, social functioning, role limitations due to emotional problems, and mental health. |
Weight | ||
Chronic health conditions | ||
Physical and mental health (SF-83) | ||
Quality of life (PWI4) | 4The Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) uses an 11-point Likert scale to measure quality of life according to eight domains: standard of living, health, achieving in life, relationships, safety, community-connectedness, future security, and spirituality/religion. | |
BBV testing history and current status | ||
Risk of BBV infection (BBV-TRAQ-SV5) | ||
Drug overdose history | ||
5The Blood Borne Virus Transmission Risk Assessment Questionnaire Short Version (BBV-TRAQ-SV) measures participation in high-risk practices for the transmission of blood-borne viruses. It consists of 15 items relating to needle and syringe contamination, other injecting equipment sharing, and second person contamination. | ||
Health service utilisation | Type of services attended | Â |
(e.g. hospital, GP, PWID PHC clinic) | ||
Frequency of service attendance | ||
Reasons for attendance (drug-related, other) | ||
Costs incurred for attendance |