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Engagement in primary health care among marginalized people who use drugs in Ottawa, Canada Kendall, Claire E; Boucher, Lisa M; Donelle, Jessy; Martin, Alana; Marshall, Zack; Boyd, Rob; Oickle, Pam; Diliso, Nicola; Pineau, Dave; Renaud, Brad; LeBlanc, Sean; Tyndall, Mark; Bayoumi, Ahmed M

Abstract

Background: There may be less primary health care engagement among people who use drugs (PWUD) than among the general population, even though the former have greater comorbidity and more frequent use of emergency department care. We investigated factors associated with primary care engagement among PWUD. Methods: The Participatory Research in Ottawa: Understanding Drugs (PROUD) cohort study meaningfully engaged and trained people with lived experience to recruit and survey marginalized PWUD between March–December 2013. We linked this survey data to provincial-level administrative databases held at ICES. We categorized engagement in primary care over the 2 years prior to survey completion as: not engaged (

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Title
Engagement in primary health care among marginalized people who use drugs in Ottawa, Canada
Creator
Kendall, Claire E; Boucher, Lisa M; Donelle, Jessy; Martin, Alana; Marshall, Zack; Boyd, Rob; Oickle, Pam; Diliso, Nicola; Pineau, Dave; Renaud, Brad; LeBlanc, Sean; Tyndall, Mark; Bayoumi, Ahmed M
Publisher
BioMed Central
Date Issued
2020-09-07
Description
Background: There may be less primary health care engagement among people who use drugs (PWUD) than among the general population, even though the former have greater comorbidity and more frequent use of emergency department care. We investigated factors associated with primary care engagement among PWUD. Methods: The Participatory Research in Ottawa: Understanding Drugs (PROUD) cohort study meaningfully engaged and trained people with lived experience to recruit and survey marginalized PWUD between March–December 2013. We linked this survey data to provincial-level administrative databases held at ICES. We categorized engagement in primary care over the 2 years prior to survey completion as: not engaged (
Subject
People who use drugs; Primary care; Health administrative data
Genre
Article
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2020-09-08
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
DOI
10.14288/1.0394266
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/75922
Affiliation
Medicine, Faculty of; Non UBC; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of
Citation
BMC Health Services Research. 2020 Sep 07;20(1):837
Publisher DOI
10.1186/s12913-020-05670-z
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
The Author(s)
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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