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Reorienting risk to resilience: street-involved youth perspectives on preventing the transition to injection drug use

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, August 2015
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Title
Reorienting risk to resilience: street-involved youth perspectives on preventing the transition to injection drug use
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BMC Public Health, August 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12889-015-2153-z
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Kira Tozer, Despina Tzemis, Ashraf Amlani, Larissa Coser, Darlene Taylor, Natasha Van Borek, Elizabeth Saewyc, Jane A. Buxton

Abstract

The Youth Injection Prevention (YIP) project aimed to identify factors associated with the prevention of transitioning to injection drug use (IDU) among street-involved youth (youth who had spent at least 3 consecutive nights without a fixed address or without their parents/caregivers in the previous six months) aged 16-24 years in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia. Ten focus groups were conducted by youth collaborators (peer-researchers) with street-involved youth (n = 47) from November 2009-April 2010. Audio recordings and focus group observational notes were transcribed verbatim and emergent themes identified by open coding and categorizing. Through ongoing data analysis we identified that youth produced risk and deficiency rather than resiliency-based answers. This enabled the questioning guide to be reframed into a strengths-based guide in a timely manner. Factors youth identified that prevented them from IDU initiation were grouped into three domains loosely derived from the risk environment framework: Individual (fear and self-worth), Social Environment (stigma and group norms - including street-entrenched adults who actively discouraged youth from IDU, support/inclusion, family/friend drug use and responsibilities), and Physical/Economic Environment (safe/engaging spaces). Engaging youth collaborators in the research ensured relevance and validity of the study. Participants emphasized having personal goals and ties to social networks, supportive family and role models, and the need for safe and stable housing as key to resiliency. Gaining the perspectives of street-involved youth on factors that prevent IDU provides a complementary perspective to risk-based studies and encourages strength-based approaches for coaching and care of at-risk youth and upon which prevention programs should be built.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 143 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 28 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 17 12%
Student > Bachelor 17 12%
Student > Doctoral Student 11 8%
Researcher 10 7%
Other 20 14%
Unknown 43 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 26 18%
Social Sciences 20 14%
Psychology 19 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 17 12%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 3%
Other 11 8%
Unknown 49 34%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 February 2019.
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#4,451,602
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#4,884
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#56,941
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#105
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