A police education programme to integrate occupational safety and HIV prevention: Protocol for a modified stepped-wedge study design with parallel prospective cohorts to assess behavioural outcomes

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Strathdee, Steffanie A ^a   Arredondo, Jaime ^a   Rocha, Teresita ^a   Abramovitz, Daniela ^a   Rolon, Maria Luisa ^a,b   Mandujano, Efrain Patiño ^b   Rangel, Maria Gudelia ^c   Olivarria, Horcasitas Omar ^d   Gaines, Tommi ^a   Patterson, Thomas L ^a   Beletsky, Leo ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (Mexico)

^c Mexico Section of the US Mexico Border Health Commission   (Mexico)

^d Baja California University   (Mexico)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG USE; EDUCATION PROGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NEEDLESTICK INJURY; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; POLICE; POLICE EDUCATION PROGRAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; SELF REPORT; STUDY DESIGN; SYRINGE; VIRUS HEPATITIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMPLICATION; EDUCATION; HIV INFECTIONS; INCIDENCE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEXICO; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PSYCHOLOGY; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LAW ENFORCEMENT; MEXICO; NEEDLE-EXCHANGE PROGRAMS; NEEDLESTICK INJURIES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; POLICE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 84941560045     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008958     Document Type: Article

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