Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element |
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Short name: | Needle sharing frequency |
METEOR identifier: | 696801 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 29/05/2024 |
Definition: | A descriptor of how often a person uses a needle which has already been used by someone else, as represented by a code. |
Data element concept attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Data element concept: | Person—needle sharing frequency |
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METEOR identifier: | 483013 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 19/11/2015 |
Definition: | A descriptor of how often a person uses a needle which has already been used by someone else. |
Object class: | Person |
Property: | Needle sharing frequency |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Value domain attributes | |
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Value domain: | Prisoner health frequency code N |
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METEOR identifier: | 696799 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 29/05/2024 |
Definition: | A code set representing frequency by which an event occurs. |
Representational attributes | ||
Representation class: | Code | |
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Data type: | Number | |
Format: | N | |
Maximum character length: | 1 | |
Value | Meaning | |
Permissible values: | 1 | Never |
2 | Sometimes | |
3 | Always | |
Supplementary values: | 9 | Unknown |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | For use in Prisoner health data collections. If this value domain is used with other metadata then 'Unknown' would map to code 8. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
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Data element attributes | |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Guide for use: | Injecting drugs refers to a method of introducing a drug into the body with a hollow needle and a syringe which is pierced through the skin into the body. |
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Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—needle sharing frequency, prisoner health frequency code N Health, Superseded 29/05/2024 Has been superseded by Person—needle sharing frequency, sometimes/often/always/unknown code N Health, Standard 29/05/2024 |
Implementation in Data Set Specifications: | Prison dischargee NBEDS 2018 Health, Superseded 29/05/2024 Conditional obligation: Conditional on a yes response to Person—injecting drug use indicator, prisoner health yes/no/unknown code N. DSS specific information: This data element corresponds to the following question of the Prison Dischargee Form: 21c. While in prison this time, how often did you use a needle that had been used by someone else (even if it had been cleaned)? During most recent imprisonment. This data element is included in the Prisoner health NBEDS as the National Prisoner Health Indicators include the indicator: Proportion of prison dischargees who reported using a needle that had been used by someone else while in prison. |