Engagement in primary health care among marginalized people who use drugs in Ottawa, Canada

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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/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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