Housing-based syringe services programs to improve access to safer injecting equipment for people who inject drugs in Vancouver, Canada: a spatially oriented qualitative study

Table 1 Abbreviated interview guide

Questions	Mapping exercise
	Indicate locations of the following on a map:
Current life situation
Where are you currently staying?	Primarily stayed Stayed occasionally
How do you generate income? Where do you work?	Primarily worked Worked occasionally
Have you ever had an encounter with the police?	Encountered police Arrested by police
Drug use and risk behaviors
How would you describe your drug use? Where do you buy drugs? Use drugs? Dispose needles/syringes and other equipment?	Bought drugs Used drugs Disposed safer injecting equipment
Can you walk me through the process of a typical time that you might use drugs in the last month?
Do you ever reuse or share safer injecting equipment?
How and when do you dispose safer injecting equipment?
Access to harm reduction supplies and services
Where do you get safer injecting equipment?	Accessed safer injecting equipment
When, where and how often do you currently access safer injecting equipment?
Why do you access safer injecting equipment in these places?
Do you feel that there are any advantages or disadvantages to accessing safer injecting equipment in these places? If so, what and why?
Where do you prefer to access safer injecting equipment?

ISSN: 1477-7517