Q2. How many people in this group report drinking alcohol?
2than half of the individuals in this group (54.6%) report drinking alcohol 2-4 times a month and one third (32.8%) report binge drinking weekly.
Q3. How did Miller and colleagues identify participants?
Participants were identified through service attendance or within gymsand sport settings through a snowball approach where participants were recommended by other participants and gatekeepers.
Q4. What is the common source of IPEDs?
Most commonly,individuals in cluster 3 acquire IPEDs from multiple sources (32.9%); more than a quarter (27.7%) report sourcing their IPEDs through a dealer.
Q5. How many people in cluster 2 report drinking alcohol?
cluster 2 individuals have experienced 1.1 adverse effects related to their AAS use and most commonly report sourcing their AAS through friends (37.3%).
Q6. What is the importance of understanding the types of AAS use?
An understanding of the types of AAS use, and their associated motivations, risk behaviours and vulnerabilities, is important for the development and provision of appropriate policy responses.
Q7. How many people in cluster 2 use other AAS?
Individuals in cluster 2 are unlikely to use otherIPEDs in addition to AAS (2.9%) and the majority have used two or less injectable AAS in the past 12 months (12.3%).
Q8. What type of classification techniques have been used to identify different types of drug users?
They identify certain ‘sets’ of characteristics and behaviours that tend to co-occurand can be used to inform interventions that are tailored to the risk profile of different ‘types’ of drug users.
Q9. What was the final analytic cohort for this study?
The final analytic cohort for this study comprised male participants only for whom a full composite of relevant variables were available(n=611).
Q10. What is the likely factor for a person to use AAS?
Cluster 4 are theless likely, when compared to cluster 2 (Wellbeing) to state achieving ‘fitness’ as a motivating factor for their AAS use.
Q11. What is the definition of a growing public health issue?
While household surveys suggest lifetime prevalence of AAS use has remained relatively low and stablesince the 1990s, at least in western world countries, there is agreement among scholars that the use of steroids is a growing public health issue {Vinther, 2015}.