FSD3422 Substance Use Related Cases in Social and Health Services 2011

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Study title

Substance Use Related Cases in Social and Health Services 2011

Alternative Title

Survey of Intoxicant-related Cases 2011

Dataset ID Number

FSD3422

Persistent identifier

urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3422

Data Type

Quantitative

Authors

  • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

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.

Keywords

drug abuse; health services; social problems; social services; substance use

Topic Classification

Series

Substance Use Related Cases in Social and Health Services

Distributor

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Access

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

Data Collector

  • Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare

Time Period Covered

2011

Collection Dates

2011-10-11

Nation

Finland

Geographical Coverage

Finland

Analysis/Observation Unit Type

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

Time Method

Longitudinal: Cohort/Event-based

Sampling Procedure

Total universe/Complete enumeration

The questionnaire was sent to social welfare and health care facilities for which address information was available. Additionally, address information was collected from different registers, the largest municipalities and other service providers (such as A-kilta associations that provide peer support to recovering substance addicts). The final database contained information on approximately 10,500 social welfare and health care facilities. The questionnaire was filled out by those social and health service employees who encountered clients or patients that fulfilled the criteria during the specified day of data collection. The information was collected in cooperation with the client/patient.

Collection Mode

Face-to-face interview: Paper-and-pencil (PAPI)

Self-administered questionnaire: Paper

Face-to-face interview: Computer-assisted (CAPI/CAMI)

Research Instrument

Structured questionnaire

Data File Language

Downloaded data package may contain different language versions of the same files.

The data files of this dataset are available in the following languages: Finnish.

FSD translates quantitative data into English on request, free of charge. More information on ordering data translation.

Data Version

1.0

Completeness of Data and Restrictions

The data contain response options added by the researcher that were not included in the questionnaire.

To prevent identification of individuals, the following information has been removed from the data: the municipality where the social welfare or health care facility was located, the client's municipality of residence and open-ended responses to response option "Other, please specify" denoting how the questionnaire was filled out (based on medical records, with the client etc.), the type of the social welfare or health care facility and the services provided to the client. Additionally, variable [ika] denoting the age group of the client was classified into five-year groups at FSD. Responses indicating the municipality where the social welfare or health care facility was located and the client's municipality of residence were classified at FSD, resulting in variables [tmaakunt], [amaakunt] and [akunta11] denoting the NUTS3 regions of the facility's location and client's residence as well as the client's residence in the 11 largest municipalities in Finland. The open-ended responses left in the data were reviewed and responses containing direct or indirect identifiers were removed.

Weighting

There are no weight variables in the data.

Citation Requirement

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Bibliographical Citation

Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare: Substance Use Related Cases in Social and Health Services 2011 [dataset]. Version 1.0 (2020-06-10). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3422

Deposit Requirement

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Disclaimer

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

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