The Cedar Project Case-Control Study

In order to implement an effective program, it is necessary to build off of best practices. To do this, one must analyze previous prevention efforts that target individual level, community level, and structural or policy changes to learn what has been most successful in populations and locations similar to Aboriginal injection drug users (IDUs) in Saskatchewan. These studies are completed in a range of locations and with target populations that are comparable to Aboriginal IDUs in Saskatchewan.
To target individuals, one must focus on individual knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and skills. Strathdee et al. conducted a study to greater understand needle sharing in Vancouver (1997). This case-control study evaluated inquiries focused on drug use, sexual behaviours, source of needles, and depression. A logistic regression was used to identify individual behaviours that determined whether one would …show more content…
Strathdee et al. identified that a history of sexual abuse can put an individual at higher risk of needle borrowing (1997). The Cedar Project expands on this, as their primary objective was to determine factors associated with sexual abuse among participants of this study through a lens of historical and intergenerational trauma. Although this is slightly different from injection drug use, the findings from this study are applicable to how we best target the Aboriginal population. It is important to consider how sexual trauma and other intergenerational trauma affects Aboriginal people. Colonialism greatly impacted the Aboriginal culture and it is necessary to use a postcolonial perspective while planning and implementing any future interventions. The Cedar Project identified the need for a client-driven, culturally sensitive intervention effort as it successfully recognized how the intergenerational trauma that has occurred in the Aboriginal