TABLE 3.
Effects of Network Properties on Amphetamine Use at 3 Months, United States and Australia
| Model 1 |
Model 2 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | Beta | Odds Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval |
Beta | Odds Ratio | 95% Confidence Interval |
| Background characteristics | ||||||
| Age (years) | 0.06 | 1.06 | 0.84, 1.34 | 0.08 | 1.08 | 0.87, 1.34 |
| Gender (male = 1) | −0.32 | 0.73 | 0.36, 1.49 | −0.61 | 0.54 | 0.26, 1.12 |
| Site (United States = 1) | −0.80* | 0.45 | 0.21, 0.95 | −0.81* | 0.45 | 0.21, 0.93 |
| Baseline behavior (user =1) | ||||||
| Amphetamine user | 2.29** | 9.90 | 4.83, 20.29 | 2.62** | 13.74 | 6.84, 27.63 |
| Network properties | ||||||
| Concentration of injecting friends | 0.46 | 1.59 | 0.79, 3.20 | |||
| Change in concentration | 0.42 | 1.52 | 0.86, 2.70 | |||
| Concentration of homeless friends | 0.73** | 2.08 | 1.18, 3.65 | |||
| Change in concentration | 0.07 | 1.07 | 0.65, 1.79 | |||
| Density | 0.63* | 1.88 | 0.94, 3.79 | |||
| Hosmer-Lemeshow test | ||||||
| Chi-square | 5.11 | 7.87 | ||||
| df | 8 | 8 | ||||
| p > chi-square | 0.75 | 0.45 | ||||
| −2 log likelihood | 213.32 | 224.23 | ||||
p < .05.
p < .01. One-tailed t test.