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. 2023 May 24;20(11):5937. doi: 10.3390/ijerph20115937

Table 4.

Associations between risk behaviors and sociodemographic characteristics of PWID enrolled in the MASLIHAT trial.

Variable Heavy Alcohol Use
(N = 418)
Syringe Sharing
(N = 420)
Condomless Sex
(N = 420)
PR 95% Conf. Int. PR 95% Conf. Int. PR 95% Conf. Int.
Age 1.02 (0.99, 1.05) 1.00 (0.98, 1.02) 0.96 (0.93, 0.98)
Recruitment site
    Diaspora organization 1.00 1.00 1.00
    Bazaar 0.98 (0.57, 1.67) 1.57 (0.99, 2.50) 0.83 (0.57, 1.20)
    Construction site 0.71 (0.43, 1.15) 1.75 (1.12, 2.72) 0.86 (0.61, 1.21)
Area of Origin
    Dushanbe 1.00 1.00 1.00
    Khatlon 1.31 (0.66, 2.59) 1.48 (1.04, 2.10) 0.91 (0.61, 1.35)
    Sughd 1.50 (0.69, 3.28) 1.54 (1.11, 2.15) 0.47 (0.28, 0.79)
    Gorno-Badakhshan 2.06 (1.22, 3.49) 1.69 (1.25, 2.28) 1.23 (0.90, 1.67)
    RRP - 1.23 (0.77, 1.97) 1.82 (1.30, 2.53)
Education
    Secondary or less 1.00 1.00 1.00
    College or technical college 1.41 (0.94, 2.11) 0.93 (0.78, 1.11) 0.53 (0.38, 0.73)
    University but no degree 2.38 (1.18, 4.79) 1.00 (0.61, 1.62) 0.55 (0.24, 1.26)
    University degree 1.10 (0.58, 2.07) 0.99 (0.78, 1.27) 0.38 (0.20, 0.74)
Marital Status a
    not married 1.00 1.00 1.00
    married 0.66 (0.32, 1.38) 1.25 (0.96, 1.63) 0.32 (0.18, 0.57)
    divorced 1.60 (1.09, 2.33) 1.04 (0.83, 1.31) 0.55 (0.44, 0.69)
How many trips to Moscow
    one 1.00 1.00 1.00
    two 1.46 (0.72, 2.98) 0.76 (0.58, 1.01) 1.08 (0.76, 1.54)
    three or more 1.59 (0.74, 3.41) 0.83 (0.64, 1.07) 0.72 (0.51, 1.04)
Employment
    Construction 1.00 1.00 1.00
    Loading in bazaar 1.12 (0.72, 1.74) 0.81 (0.60, 1.10) 1.20 (0.94, 1.54)
    Selling/food service 1.79 (1.18, 1.74) 0.63 (0.44, 0.91) 0.72 (0.51, 1.01)
    Other/missing 0.40 (0.12, 1.38) 1.31 (1.08, 1.58) 0.81 (0.44, 1.50)

a Two missing. Excluded due to non-varying outcome, N = 377. PWID: people who inject drugs; MASLIHAT: Migrants’ Approached Self-Learning Intervention in HIV/AIDS; RRP: Region of Republican Subordination.