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Study title

Substance Use Related Cases in Social and Health Services 2011

Creator

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Study number / PID

FSD3422 (FSD)

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3422 (URN)

10.60686/t-fsd3422 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Substance Use Related Cases in Social and Health Services

The survey series contains data on substance use related cases in different social and health services as well as in prisons and community sanctions offices. Data collection is conducted every four years on the second Tuesday of October. The survey has been conducted since 1987 and the data have been archived at FSD from the 2003 survey onwards. The survey questionnaire charts, among other topics, the substance use of the social and health service clients, their reasons for using social and health services and the services they received on the day of the survey. Data collection is conducted...

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Abstract

The survey charted substance use related cases in social and health services on the second Tuesday of October in 2011. Professionals in social and health services recorded information on every client or patient who used the services on that day while intoxicated or because of some harm, such as an injury, relating to substance use, or were assessed by an employee to be a substance abuser. First, the substances the client had used in the past 12 months (e.g. alcohol, cannabis, cocaine) as well as whether they had ever during their life injected drugs were charted. The primary reason for using social and health services (e.g. injury, withdrawal symptoms, substance abuse problems) and the services provided to the client (e.g. helping with life management problems, intervention, detoxication) were surveyed. The occurrence of threatening or violent behaviour by the client in the social welfare or health care facility was also examined, and mental health problems unrelated to substance use as well as gambling problems were charted. Next, the questionnaire contained some questions directed only at either outpatient care clients (questions 19-22) or inpatient care clients (question 23). The questions concerning outpatient care clients focused on, for example, whether they had made an appointment beforehand and the time used on the services provided to them. The question concerning inpatient care (overnight care) clients examined the length of the client's continuous treatment at the time of data collection (e.g. 1-3 days, over a month, 6-12 months). Background variables included the language of the questionnaire, region where the social welfare or health care facility was located (NUTS3) and type of the facility as well as the client's gender, region of residence (NUTS3), marital status, age group, economic activity and occupational status, housing tenure and whether they had children under 18 years of age.

Topics

Social sciencesMedical and health sciencesDrug abuse, alcohol and smokingSpecific social services: use and availabilityGeneral health and well-being

Keywords

Drug abuseHealth servicesSocial problemsSocial servicesSubstance use

Methodology

Data collection period

11/10/2011

Country

Finland

Time dimension

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Analysis unit

Individual

Universe

Clients or patients who used social or health services during the specified day of data collection (the second Tuesday of October) while intoxicated or because of some harm, such as an injury, relating to substance use, or were assessed by an employee to be a substance abuser

Sampling procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

Kind of data

Quantitative

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI)
Self-administered questionnaire: Paper
Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)

Access

Publisher

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Publication year

2020

Terms of data access

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

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