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The self-reported personal wellbeing of a sample of Australian injecting drug users

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posted on 2023-05-17, 04:18 authored by Dietze, P, Stoove, M, Miller, P, Kinner, S, Raimondo BrunoRaimondo Bruno, Alati, R, Burns, L
Aims To examine the self-reported personal wellbeing of a sample of Australian injecting drug users (IDU) using a standardized instrument and determine the key correlates of variations in self-reported personal wellbeing. Design, setting and participants Cross-sectional survey of 881 Australian IDU. Measurements Self-reported personal wellbeing collected using the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI). Findings IDU scored significantly lower than the general Australian population on the PWI and all subscales. Lower PWI scores were associated with a range of socio-demographic, drug use and other health and social characteristics. Across all PWI subscales, lower personal wellbeing scores were associated with unemployment, past 6-month mental health problems and more frequent injecting (all P < 0.05). Conclusions The PWI is sufficiently sensitive to distinguish between IDU and the general population, and to identify key correlates of PWI among IDU. Some domains canvassed within the scale, such as health, standard of living and life achievements, are well within the scope of current intervention strategies, such as pharmacotherapy maintenance treatment and housing and employment support services. This suggests that the PWI could be useful in clinical settings by allowing structured identification of the areas of a person's life to be addressed as a part of a treatment regimen. In order to inform targeted prevention and intervention efforts, longitudinal studies of PWI and its correlates among IDU are required.

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Publication title

Addiction

Volume

105

Issue

12

Pagination

2141-2148

ISSN

0965-2140

Department/School

School of Psychological Sciences

Publisher

Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Place of publication

9600 Garsington Rd, Oxford, England, Oxon, Ox4 2Dg

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The definitive published version is available online at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/

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Socio-economic Objectives

Public health (excl. specific population health) not elsewhere classified

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