Table 1 |
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Demographic and social characteristics of study participants |
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| Doña Ana County, NM (n = 100) |
Ciudad Juárez, MX (n = 204) |
El Paso, TX (n = 155) |
Chi-square p-valuea |
All sites (n = 459) |
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| Sex, n (%) |
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| Male |
80 (80.0) |
189 (92.7) |
132 (85.2) |
401 (87.4) |
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| Female |
20 (20.0) |
15 (7.4) |
23 (14.8) |
0.005 |
58 (12.6) |
| Age. mean (median) |
41.8 (42.0) |
35.3 (33.0) |
42.0 (42.0) |
< 0.0001b |
39.0 (38.0) |
| Hispanic, n (%) |
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| Yes |
69 (69.0) |
203 (99.5) |
117 (75.5) |
389 (84.7) |
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| No |
31 (31.0) |
1 (0.5) |
35 (22.5) |
< 0.0001 |
67 (14.6) |
| No answer |
0 (0.0) |
0 (0.0) |
3 (1.9) |
3 (0.7) |
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| Country of birth, n (%) |
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| USA |
94 (94.0) |
4 (2.0) |
139 (89.7) |
237 (51.6) |
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| Mexico |
4 (4.0) |
200 (98.0) |
14 (9.0) |
218 (47.5) |
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| Other |
1 (1.0) |
0 (0.0) |
1 (0.6) |
2 (0.4) |
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| No answer |
1 (1.0) |
0 (0.0) |
1 (0.6) |
2 (0.4) |
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| Years of education, mean (median) |
10.9 (11.5) |
7.1 (7.0) |
10.8 (11) |
< 0.0001b |
9.2 (9.0) |
| Marital status, n (%) |
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| Unmarried |
41 (41.0) |
105 (51.5) |
66 (42.6) |
212 (46.2) |
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| Married |
27 (27.0) |
62 (30.4) |
36 (23.2) |
125 (27.2) |
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| Divorced/Separated/Widowed |
32 (32.0) |
36 (17.6) |
52 (33.5) |
0.007 |
120 (26.1) |
| No answer |
0 (0.0) |
1 (0.5) |
1 (0.6) |
2 (0.4) |
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| Social network, mean (median) |
21.0 (10.0) |
52.2 (20.0) |
28.5 (15.0) |
0.002b |
37.4 (20.0) |
| Days since last injection, mean (median) |
5.2 (2.0) |
0.8 (0.0) |
3.7 (1.0) |
< 0.0001b |
2.7 (1.0) |
| Family ever inject drugs*, n (%) |
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| None |
49 (49.0) |
118 (57.8) |
84 (54.2) |
251 (54.7) |
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| Mother/father |
10 (10.0) |
12 (5.9) |
13 (8.4) |
35 (7.6) |
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| Sibling |
40 (40.0) |
49 (24.0) |
51 (32.9) |
140 (30.5) |
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| Cousin |
12 (12.0) |
17 (8.3) |
18 (11.6) |
47 (10.2) |
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| Aunt/uncle |
17 (17.0) |
15 (3.3) |
22 (14.2) |
54 (11.8) |
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| Other |
11 (11.0) |
24 (5.2) |
20 (12.9) |
55 (12.0) |
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| Don't know |
2 (2.0) |
2 (0.4) |
4 (2.6) |
8 (1.7) |
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| Ever have tattoo |
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| Yes |
80 (80.0) |
167 (81.9) |
119 (76.8) |
366 (79.7) |
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| No |
20 (20.0) |
37 (18.1) |
33 (21.3) |
0.702 |
90 (19.6) |
| No answer |
0 (0.0) |
0 (0.0) |
3 (1.9) |
3 (0.7) |
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*Categories are not mutually exclusive and therefore percentages may be greater than 100%. a Chi-square test of independence used to observe differences in categorical variables across sites. b ANOVA used to compare means across sites. |
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Baumbach et al. Harm Reduction Journal 2008 5:33 doi:10.1186/1477-7517-5-33 |
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