Table 1.
Sociodemographic and Behavioral Factors Associated With Reported History of Abscess Among Persons Who Inject Drugs, San Diego, 2009–2010 (N = 541)
| Variables | Overall N (%) N = 541 |
Ever Abscess n (%) n = 258 |
No Abscess n (%) n = 283 |
p-Valuea |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender (4 missing) | ||||
| Male | 388 (72.3) | 173 (67.6) | 215 (76.5) | |
| Female | 149 (27.7) | 83 (32.4) | 66 (23.5) | .03b |
| Age (years; 4 missing) | ||||
| <24 | 154 (28.7) | 66 (25.7) | 88 (31.4) | |
| 25–34 | 272 (50.7) | 137 (53.3) | 135 (48.2) | |
| 35–40 | 111 (20.7) | 54 (21.0) | 57 (20.4) | .32 |
| Race/ethnicity | ||||
| White | 274 (50.6) | 131 (50.8) | 143 (50.5) | |
| Black | 37 (6.8) | 12 (4.7) | 25 (8.8) | |
| Hispanic/Latino | 148 (27.4) | 69 (26.7) | 79 (27.9) | |
| Other | 82 (15.2) | 46 (17.8) | 36 (12.7) | .12 |
| Housing status (6 missing) | ||||
| Housed | 347 (64.9) | 159 (62.4) | 188 (67.1) | |
| Institutionalized | 77 (14.4) | 38 (14.9) | 39 (13.9) | |
| Homeless | 108 (20.2) | 57 (22.4) | 51 (18.2) | |
| Other | 3 (0.6) | 1 (0.4) | 2 (0.7) | .59 |
| HCV RNA (55 missing) | ||||
| Negative | 390 (80.2) | 169 (79.0) | 221 (81.3) | |
| Positive | 96 (19.8) | 45 (21.0) | 51 (18.8) | .57 |
| No. of years of injecting (4 missing) | ||||
| 0–4 | 219 (40.8) | 77 (30.2) | 142 (50.4) | |
| 5–10 | 166 (30.9) | 96 (37.6) | 70 (24.8) | |
| 11 + | 152 (28.3) | 82 (32.2) | 70 (24.8) | <.001b |
Note. HCV = hepatitis C virus.
a
p-Value from χ2 statistics for percentage.
b
p-Value ≤ .05 is significant.