TY - JOUR
T1 - Challenges in recruiting and training drug treatment patients as peer outreach workers
T2 - A perspective from the field
AU - Colón, Rosa M.
AU - Deren, Sherry
AU - Guarino, Honoria
AU - Mino, Milton
AU - Kang, Sung Yeon
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, Grant DA010425. We also express appreciation to all the patients in the methadone maintenance clinics and the staff of these clinics for their participation in this study. Address correspondence to Sherry Deren, Center for Drug Use & HIV Research, NYU College of Nursing, 726 Broadway, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10003; E-mail: [email protected] 1Treatment can be briefly and usefully defined as a planned, goal-directed, temporally structured change process, of necessary quality, appropriateness, and conditions (endogenous and
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - Hispanic patients were recruited from methadone maintenance treatment programs in 2005-2008 to be trained as peer outreach workers, targeting migrant drug users from Puerto Rico. Goals of the outreach focused on reducing HIV-related risk behaviors. A total of 80 peers were recruited from 4 clinics in New York and New Jersey. Following training, they conducted outreach in their communities for 12 weeks. This paper describes the challenges encountered during the recruitment, training, and outreach phases of the project, from the field perspective. Recommendations for future efforts in training drug treatment patients as outreach workers are provided.
AB - Hispanic patients were recruited from methadone maintenance treatment programs in 2005-2008 to be trained as peer outreach workers, targeting migrant drug users from Puerto Rico. Goals of the outreach focused on reducing HIV-related risk behaviors. A total of 80 peers were recruited from 4 clinics in New York and New Jersey. Following training, they conducted outreach in their communities for 12 weeks. This paper describes the challenges encountered during the recruitment, training, and outreach phases of the project, from the field perspective. Recommendations for future efforts in training drug treatment patients as outreach workers are provided.
KW - Cultural mediators
KW - Drug treatment patients
KW - HIV prevention
KW - Peer outreach workers
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U2 - 10.3109/10826081003684863
DO - 10.3109/10826081003684863
M3 - Article
C2 - 20380554
AN - SCOPUS:76849096527
SN - 1082-6084
VL - 45
SP - 1892
EP - 1908
JO - Substance Use and Misuse
JF - Substance Use and Misuse
IS - 12
ER -