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Table 2 Risk factors among total sample and by injection drug use behavior

From: The association between psychosocial and structural-level stressors and HIV injection drug risk behavior among Malaysian fishermen: A cross-sectional study

 

Total sample

Non-Injector

PWID

(n = 406)

(n = 252) (62.1 %)

(n = 154) (37.9 %)

 

n

%

n

%

n

%

HIV+

48

11.8 %

8

3.2 %

40

26.0 %**

Mental Health

-Depression (BSI, cutoff score 63)

42

10.3 %

16

6.3 %

26

16.9 %**

Financial Stressors a

-At or below poverty line (ref: above poverty line)

288/402

71.6 %

200/248

80.6 %**

88

57.1 %

-Borrowed money in past 3 months (ref: not borrowed)

98

24.1 %

48

19.0 %

50

32.5 %**

-Enough money to buy food in past 3 months (ref: not enough)

117

28.8 %

66

26.2 %

51

33.1 %

Living conditions

-Needed or wanted place to stay past 3 months, but did not (ref: had consistent place to stay)

55

13.5 %

31

12.3 %

24

15.6 %

Negative Police Interactions

Ever been arrested

206

50.7 %

66

26.2 %

140

90.9 %**

# times been arrested among those who reported prior arrest (n = 206) (mean, sd)

4.3, 4.7

3.3, 3.8

4.8, 5.0*

Ever been brought to police lock-up, among those that had been arrested (n = 206)

192

93.2 %

53

80.3 %

139

99.3 %**

# Days detained in lock-up, past 3 months (mean, sd) among those detained) (n = 190) a

4.6, 6.6

3.3, 5.8

5.1, 6.8†

Ever gone to prison a

130/203

64.0 %

23/63

36.5 %

107/140

76.4 %**

# times gone to prison (mean, sd) among those previously gone to prison (n = 203) a

3.2, 2.8

2.7, 2.3

3.3, 2.9

  1. amissingness due to non-response
  2. ** p <0.01; * p <0.05; † p < 0.1