Table 2.
Univariate analyses of study participants' characteristics stratified by those who did and did not report prohibited income sources.
| Prohibited* income source | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics | Yes
n, (%) |
No
n, (%) |
OR† | 95% CI | |
| Median Age (IQR)‡ | 36 (16) | 41 (13) | 1.0 | (0.9 – 1.0) | |
| Frequent Crack Use† | Yes | 99 (70) | 43 (30) | 4.6 | (2.6 – 7.2) |
| No | 46 (35) | 87 (65) | |||
| Syringe Lending† | Yes | 17 (81) | 4 (19) | 4.2 | (1.4 – 12.8) |
| No | 128 (50) | 126 (50) | |||
| Frequent Heroin Use† | Yes | 75 (68) | 36 (32) | 2.7 | (1.7 – 4.6) |
| No | 70 (43) | 94 (57) | |||
| Public Injecting† | Yes | 34 (72) | 13 (28) | 2.7 | (1.4 – 5.5) |
| No | 111 (49) | 117 (51) | |||
| Gender | F | 82 (65) | 45 (35) | 2.5 | (1.5 – 4.0) |
| M | 63 (43) | 85 (57) | |||
| Homelessness† | Yes | 34 (71) | 14 (29) | 2.5 | (1.3 – 5.0) |
| No | 111 (49) | 116 (51) | |||
| Syringe Borrowing† | Yes | 13 (62) | 8 (38) | 1.5 | (0.6 – 3.7) |
| No | 132 (52) | 122 (48) | |||
| Frequent Cocaine Use† | Yes | 33 (52) | 30 (48) | 1.0 | (0.6 – 1.7) |
| No | 112 (53) | 100 (47) | |||
| Addiction Treatment† | Yes | 76 (50) | 76 (50) | 0.8 | (0.5 – 1.3) |
| No | 69 (56) | 54 (44) | |||
| Aboriginal Ethnicity | Yes | 40 (48) | 43 (52) | 0.8 | (0.5 – 1.3) |
| No | 105 (55) | 87 (45) | |||
OR = Odds Ratio; CI = Confidence Interval.
*
Prohibited income categories include; sex trade work, drug dealing, other criminal activity, panhandling, and binning.
‡
Age per year older.
†
Denotes activities or situations referring to previous 6 months.