Table 3.

Awareness of BC’s decriminalization policy among harm reduction clients (n = 404)

	Overall (n = 404)		Aware (n = 254)		Not aware (n = 150)			Risk Ratio	95% Confidence Interval		P-value	χ21,P-value
			n	%		n	%		Lower CI	Upper CI
Health Authority/region												7.56, 0.11
Fraser	85		53	62.4%		32	37.6%	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Interior	105		70	66.7%		35	33.3%	1.03	0.85	1.26	0.75
Island	91		58	63.7%		33	36.3%	1.09	0.91	1.30	0.35
Northern	83		43	51.8%		40	48.2%	0.93	0.70	1.23	0.60
Vancouver Coastal	40		30	75.0%		10	25.0%	1.25	1.03	1.51	0.021
Community size												5.65, 0.06
Large population centre	143		81	56.6%		62	43.4%	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Medium population centre	120		85	70.8%		35	29.2%	1.21	1.01	1.43	0.03
Small population centre	141		88	62.4%		53	37.6%	1.05	0.89	1.24	0.55
Concerned about losing housing in the past 6 months												5.43, 0.02
No	164		92	56.1%		74	45.1%	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	240		162	67.5%		78	32.5%	1.21	1.05	1.39	0.01
Internet Access												6.01, 0.01
No	70		35	50.0%		35	50.0%	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes	334		219	65.6%		115	34.4%	1.26	0.99	1.59	0.06
Age group												0.37, 0.54
40 and older	218		140	64.2%		78	35.8%	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
19–39	186		114	61.3%		72	38.7%	1.00	0.98	1.02	0.99
Sex/gender												4.27, 0.04
Cis man	225		170	75.6%		85	37.8%	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Cis woman	149		84	56.4%		65	43.6%	0.87	0.75	1.01	0.07
Opioid used in the last three days												1.22, 0.27
No		165	109	66.1%		56	33.9%	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes		239	145	60.7%		94	39.3%	0.96	0.85	1.09	0.53
Simulant used in the last three days												4.28, 0.04
No		136	95	69.9%		41	30.1%	Ref	Ref	Ref	Ref
Yes		268	159	59.3%		109	40.7%	0.82	0.72	0.94	0.004

¹Pearson’s Chi-squared test statistic and p-value