使用数字技术减少与毒品有关的危害:苏格兰数字生命线计划的针对性服务用户的观点
Graeme Strachan1, Hadi Daneshvar2, Hannah Carver1
1Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK.
Harm reduction journal
|July 2, 2024
概括
苏格兰数字生命线 (DLS) 为吸毒者提供了数字设备,增强了他们与服务的联系,并培养了社区意识. 这一数字化包容性倡议对改善结果和赋予服务用户权力的承诺是有希望的.
科学领域:
- 数字健康数字健康
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 社会学 社会学 社会学
背景情况:
- 药物过量死亡是全球危机,苏格兰面临欧洲最高的死亡率,不成比例地影响贫困地区.
- 对为吸毒者提供减少危害和无家可归服务的数字解决方案的研究是有限的.
- 数字生命线苏格兰 (DLS) 计划为使用或使用过毒品的弱势个人提供数字设备,促进服务连接.
研究的目的:
- 从服务用户的角度评估数字生命线苏格兰 (DLS) 计划.
- 调查与毒品相关的危害风险较高的人群中使用,访问和对数字设备的看法.
- 了解数字包容性对服务参与和福祉的影响.
主要方法:
- 混合方法评估,包括在线调查 (n=19) 和半结构面试 (n=21).
- 使用技术,人,组织和宏观环境 (TPOM) 框架对调查数据进行描述性分析和采访数据进行诱导编码.
- 专注于服务用户获得减少伤害和无家可归者支持.
主要成果:
- 参与者通常独自居住在社会住房中,年龄在40岁以上,他们希望数据隐私,知识,并重视数字设备.
- 服务提供以人为中心的方法鼓励了例行参与.
- DLS计划在服务用户中培养了价值感,社区,联系和归属感.
结论:
- 服务用户希望改善生活,并对他们的数字参与感觉到责任.
- 数字化包容为安全和建设性的服务和社会接入提供了一条途径.
- 这项研究强调了服务用户洞察力在为弱势群体开发数字解决方案方面的价值.
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