Tuesday, March 6, 2007

harm reduction and health curricula

hello from london again! I am currently in the process of getting a bid together (at very short notice) to fund a project which evaluates the impact of providing standard (which is just 3 hours of drug/alc awareness, and a bit about detox) plus extended lectures on harm reduction to student nurses (RN's) in terms of attitudes towards drug use/users (versus students who just get the standard teaching). I have reviewed a few attitude to drug use/users questionnaires but none have got me excited .... does anyone know of any good measures in this area?
thanks
peter

1 comment:

chavacita said...

Hey Peter -
I don't have an idea about a questionaire but I would suggest in your proposal you should budget to purchase some Harm Reduction films.
The International Conference has had a Film Fest conponent for the last 4 years? The abstracts of the films shown at the conferences are available here:

Burnet Institute
http://www.chr.asn.au/home

They are such excellent tools for teaching people concepts about Harm Reduction practices around the world.

Cheeers,
Shannon