Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 1.2.6–Sharing of used needles/syringes, 2020
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | AHPF PI 1.2.6–Sharing of used needles/syringes, 2020 |
Synonymous names: | Receptive sharing of used needles/syringes by people who inject drugs |
METEOR identifier: | 728302 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 11/07/2023 |
Description: | The proportion of people who inject drugs who attend Needle-Syringe Programs (NSP), and who reported re-using someone else’s used needles/syringes in the previous month, based on the 1995—2019 Australian Needle Syringe Program Survey. |
Rationale: | Re-use of another person's used needles/syringes increases the risk of transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV). Needle-Syringe Programs are part of a comprehensive package of programs that aim to reduce the harmful consequences of injection drug use by facilitating access to new needles/syringes for people who inject drugs. |
Indicator set: | Australian Health Performance Framework, 2020 Health, Superseded 11/07/2023 |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Computation description: | The proportion of people who inject drugs in contact with Needle-Syringe Programs who reported re-using someone else’s used needles/syringes in the last month. |
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Computation: | 100 × (Numerator ÷ Denominator) |
Numerator: | The number of surveyed participants in contact with Needle- Syringe Programs, who report re-using someone else’s used needles or syringes in the last month. |
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Denominator: | The number of surveyed participants in contact with Needle-Syringe Programs who injected in the last month. |
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Disaggregation: | Nationally, by state/territory. |
Comments: | 1. The Australian Needle Syringe Program Survey is a self-report survey conducted annually over a one to two-week period in October. All clients attending participating Needle and Syringe Programs are invited to complete a brief‚ anonymous questionnaire. |
Representational attributes | |
Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Person |
Format: | N[NN].N |
Indicator conceptual framework | |
Framework and dimensions: | Health behaviours |
Data source attributes | |
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Accountability attributes | |
Methodology: | Clients of Needle and Syringe Programs are invited to complete an anonymous survey over a two-week period in October. |
Reporting requirements: | Annual reporting of survey results as a requirement of funding from the Australian Government Department of Health. |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales |
Accountability: | Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales |
Other issues caveats: | Survey response rate over recent years falls within the band of 41% to 48% of clients invited to participate. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales |
Steward: | Department of Health and Aged Care |
Origin: | Heard S, Iversen J, Kwon JA, Maher L 2017. Needle and Syringe Program National Minimum Data Collection: National data report 2017. Sydney: Kirby Institute. |
Reference documents: | Heard, S; Iversen J; Geddes L & Maher, L. 2020. Australian NSP survey: Prevalence of HIV, HCV and injecting and sexual behaviour among NSP attendees, 25-year National Data Report 1995-2019. Sydney: The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney. |
Relational attributes | |
Related metadata references: | Has been superseded by Australian Health Performance Framework: PI 1.2.6–Sharing of used needles/syringes, 2021 Health, Superseded 02/02/2024 |