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Abstract
The assessment of interviewer’s societal status influencing the data obtained in the Harm reduce project
S R Saukhat1, D V Vorontsov2, N M Tormozova2, N M Ternovaya1, T K Poplavskaya3, V F Kravchenko4
1NGO AntiAIDS-South, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation; 2The Southern Russia Federal Centre for AIDS Prevention, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation; 3Rostov Territorial Centre for AIDS Prevention, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation; 4Rostov Territorial Narcology Centre, Rostov-on-Don, Russian Federation
Issues: obtaining the authentic data on the risky behaviour patterns of injecting drug users taking part in Harm reduce initiatives is an indispensable constituent of the planning, management and assessment of any project. The phenomenon of interviewer’s social or societal status influencing the respondent’s openness level and authenticity of data obtained during the standardized questioning is well known distortion factor in sociology. Nevertheless, this phenomenon is rarely took into account by the field workers and their managers in Russian Harm reduce projects.
Description: an assessment of interviewer’s societal status influencing the data obtained on the risky behaviour patterns of injecting drug users within the Harm reduce project was made in Rostov-on-Don (Southern Russia). Two groups of interviewers questioned on usual behaviour practices by standardized list the drug users newly involved into the project activities. The first one had a societal status of non-users (professional medical staff), the second group of interviewers had peer status as the members of drug-users community.
Lessons learned: the significant differences were discovered between the data obtained by the first and the second groups of interviewers. The medical staff of the project was less informed then the peer staff on such risky practices as joint drug use in companies (t=-2.22), sharing the substance solution from syringe to syringe (t=-2.12), and visiting dopes, where the practice of sharing one syringe is usual (t=-3.68).
Recommendations: to increase the authenticity of data obtained, when assessing the spread of risky behavioral patterns in the community, it is strongly recommended to enlist peer status staff as the interviewers.
The XIV International AIDS Conference
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WePeD6303
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" S R Saukhat , , et al.
The assessment of interviewer’s societal status influencing the data obtained in the Harm reduce project
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