Kentucky Outreach Service Kiosk (KyOSK): Reducing HIV, HCV, and Overdose Risk

Launched by APRIL M YOUNG · Dec 9, 2022

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ClinConnect Summary

This is a Type 1 hybrid effectiveness study involving a community-level, controlled quasi-experimental trial to assess the impact of a community-tailored harm reduction kiosk on HIV, HCV, and overdose risk in rural Appalachia, and a mixed methods evaluation of implementation outcomes. The trial will compare the standard local syringe service program (SSP) design (brick-and-mortar, staffed by department of health staff) to an enhanced model involving a harm reduction kiosk + standard SSP. The kiosk, referred to as the KyOSK (Kentucky Outreach Service Kiosk) will be tailored through a communi...

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ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• Individuals are eligible if they are:
• • age 18 or older,
• • live in the intervention or comparison county, and
• • have engaged in injection or non-injection illicit drug use to get high in the past 6 months (excluding marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco).
• Exclusion Criteria:
• Individuals are not eligible if they meet any of the exclusion criteria:
• • being under the age of 18,
• • not living in the intervention or comparison county,
• • having not engaged in injection or non-injection illicit drug use to get high in the past 6 months (excluding marijuana, alcohol, and tobacco),
• • not being able to speak or understand English,
• • conviction in the past 10 years of a violent crime (i.e., murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, and /or aggravated assault) or stalking,
• • current charges of violent crime or stalking, or
• • having plans to move out of the study counties in the next 6 months, or residing in an inpatient facility.

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