The Swedish Prison Program is an Intervention Prevention Program Targeting Injecting Drug Users Risk Behaviours and Infectious Diseases

Svenska Häktesprogrammet, Prevention, Risk Behaviour and Infectious Diseases Among IDU.

Status

Completed

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02234167

Acronym

SHP

Enrollment

Unknown

Registered

2014-09-09

Start date

2002-04-30

Completion date

2013-12-31

Last updated

2020-09-17

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Having Ever Injected Drugs

Brief summary

The purpose of the Swedish Prison Program which started back in 1987 and up until 2009 was called The Social Medicine Remand Prison Project is to target injecting drug users (IDU) with primary and secondary health interventions with regards to injecting and sexual risk behaviours and infectious diseases such as hepatitis C and B, HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STI). The overall aim is to assess the effect of different prevention efforts on HIV/HCV risk behaviour and disease outcome among IDUs over time.

Detailed description

Risk behaviour for IDU is sexual risk taking, i.e., sex without a condom, buying or selling sex and injection risk taking, i.e., sharing needle, syringe or paraphernalia.

Interventions

BEHAVIORALRisk behaviour and infectious diseases

through counselling, testing vaccination

Study design

Allocation

Primary purpose

PREVENTION

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

* Defined as an injecting drug user, in the prison and probation service and agree to anonymously participate

Exclusion criteria

* Being defined as a non-drug user, non-injecting drug user

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Number of participants with injection risk behaviour	2002-2012	Have you received already used injection equipment from someone last 12 months Have you lent (away) already used injection equipment to someone last 12 months Have you shared solution and/or filter with someone last 12 months Number of people shared needles with last month Number of injections last month Number of Hepatitis C positive Number of HIV positive Number of Hepatitis B positive Number of respondenst positive for sexually transmitted infections

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Number of participants with infectious diseases	2002-2012	HIV, HCV, HBV and STI

Countries

Sweden

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Mar 9, 2026