Background: Injection drug use is a skill learned in social settings. Change the Cycle (CTC), a peer-delivered, one-session intervention, is designed to reduce among people who inject drugs (PIDs) injection initiation-related behaviours (i.e., speaking positively about injecting to non-injectors, injecting in front of non-injectors, explaining or showing a non-injector how to inject) and initiation of non-injectors. We hypothesized that participation in CTC would lead to reductions in initiation-related behaviours six months later.
Methods: Using respondent driven sampling (RDS), 98 PIDs were recruited in Toronto, Canada to participate in pilot testing of CTC. The baseline session consisted of a structured interview, the peer-delivered CTC intervention, instructions regarding RDS coupon distribution, and an invitation to return in six months for a follow-up interview. For the 84 PIDs completing the six-month interview, we compared initiation-related behaviours at baseline with six-month follow-up.
Results: The proportion of PIDs offering to initiate a non-injector was reduced from 8.4% (95% CI: 2.5, 15.9) at baseline to 1.59% (95% CI: 0.4, 3.7) at 6-month follow-up. The prevalence of speaking positively about injection to non-injectors also decreased significantly. The proportion of PIDs who helped a non-injector with a first injection at baseline was 6.2% (95% CI: 2.1, 11.3) and at follow-up was 3.5% (95% CI: 0.8, 7.1). Paired analyses of initiator baseline versus follow-up data showed a 72.7% reduction in initiation (95%CI: 47.7, 83.1).
Conclusions: While further refinements remain to be tested, pilot study results suggest that CTC holds promise as a prevention intervention.
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