Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of PWID enrolled in the MASLIHAT trial.
| Peer Educator (n = 140) * |
Network Members (n = 280) * |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Mean (SD) |
Range | Mean (SD) |
Range | p-Value † |
| Age | 30.7 | 21–50 | 29.6 | 19–49 | 0.001 |
| (6.74) | (5.90) | ||||
| n | % | n | % | ||
| Recruitment site | |||||
| Diaspora organization | 24 | 17.1 | 48 | 17.1 | |
| Bazaar | 44 | 31.4 | 88 | 31.4 | |
| Construction site | 72 | 51.4 | 144 | 51.4 | |
| Area of origin | 0.280 | ||||
| Dushanbe | 31 | 22.1 | 57 | 20.4 | |
| Khatlon | 29 | 20.7 | 59 | 21.1 | |
| Sughd | 13 | 9.3 | 31 | 11.1 | |
| Gorno-Badakhshan | 54 | 38.6 | 105 | 37.5 | |
| Subordinate Districts | 13 | 9.3 | 28 | 10.0 | |
| Education | 0.374 | ||||
| Secondary or less | 91 | 65.0 | 165 | 58.9 | |
| College or technical college | 32 | 22.9 | 73 | 26.1 | |
| University but no degree | 6 | 4.3 | 8 | 2.9 | |
| University degree | 11 | 7.9 | 34 | 12.1 | |
| Marital Status | 0.200 | ||||
| not married | 65 | 46.4 | 111 | 39.9 | |
| married | 14 | 10.0 | 38 | 13.7 | |
| divorced | 61 | 43.6 | 129 | 46.4 | |
| How long in Russia this trip | 0.280 | ||||
| One year or less | 9 | 6.6 | 30 | 10.9 | |
| >1 to 2 years | 42 | 30.7 | 88 | 32.1 | |
| >2 years | 86 | 62.8 | 156 | 56.9 | |
| How many trips to Moscow | 0.024 | ||||
| One | 8 | 5.7 | 41 | 14.6 | |
| Two | 55 | 39.3 | 81 | 28.9 | |
| Three or more | 77 | 55.0 | 158 | 56.4 | |
| Employment | 0.885 | ||||
| Construction | 76 | 54.3 | 154 | 55.0 | |
| Loading in bazaar | 29 | 21.7 | 58 | 20.7 | |
| Selling/food service | 27 | 19.3 | 48 | 17.1 | |
| Other/missing | 8 | 5.7 | 20 | 7.1 | |
* Study characteristics may not sum to column N due to missing information. † Linear regression for continuous and multinomial logit models for categorical variables with cluster-adjusted standard errors. PWID: people who inject drugs; MASLIHAT: Migrants’ Approached Self-Learning Intervention in HIV/AIDS.