IV Drug users' experience of DVT

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  DVTs in IV drug users: a qualitative study exploring beliefs and attitudes

• IRAS ID

  191846

• Contact name

  Charles Cornford

• Contact email

  01642 354550

• Sponsor organisation

  Tees Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust

• Duration of Study in the UK

  1 years, 0 months, 1 days

• Research summary

  DVTs are a common complication of intravenous drug use, with significant long term morbidity for the individual concerned and with significant costs to the health service. No qualitative study so far has investigated patients’ views about DVTs in this group.

  The aims of the study are, for patients who have experienced a DVT from drug injecting, to explore beliefs and understanding about how they arose, how repeated DVTs might be prevented, their understanding of how treatment works, the benefits and drawbacks of treatment, the current impact of the previous DVT on functioning and how they currently manage the associated physical and mental problems.

  It is intended to investigate this through qualitative, semi-structured interviews with a group of patients who have developed at least one DVT resulting from IV drug use. The accounts will be analysed by standard qualitative techniques.
  

• REC name

  North East - Newcastle & North Tyneside 1 Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/NE/0164

• Date of REC Opinion

  20 May 2016

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion