Table 1. Sociodemographic data as means (standard deviation) for age, years of education, employment and income and as frequencies for race, marital status and religion.
| First Assessment | Second Assessment | |||||||
| Jungle Sample | Urban Sample | Jungle Sample | Urban Sample | |||||
| Ayahuasca | Controls | Ayahuasca | Controls | Ayahuasca | Controls | Ayahuasca | Controls | |
| Matching variables | ||||||||
| N (men/women) | 56 (29/27) | 56 (24/32) | 71 (33/38) | 59 (31/28) | 39 (19/20) | 49 (19/30) | 39 (21/18) | 19 (7/12) |
| Age | 36 (13.46) | 33.71 (12.53) | 37.32 (12.77) | 38.15 (12.22) | 39.21 (12.90) | 34.69 (12.25) | 38.82 (13.06) | 40.63 (11.63) |
| Years Education | 10.55 (3.45) | 10.96 (4.35) | 10.27 (3.90) | 11.08 (3.30) | 11.08 (3.19) | 11.51 (4.40) | 10.87 (4.16) | 12.53 (3.03) |
| Additional sociodemographic variables | ||||||||
| Employment | 6.04 (1.68) | 4.91 (2.58)** | 5.80 (2.63) | 5.73 (2.61) | 5.79 (1.61) | 5.08 (2.70) | 5.82 (2.59) | 5.32 (2.43) |
| Income | 329.46 (414.06) | 555.61 (1013.85) | 738.11 (943.86) | 1028.93 (1072.83) | 519.74 (627.52) | 642.96 (647.71) | 713.95 (1001.25) | 1065.95 (939.92) |
| Race | ||||||||
| White | 40 (71.42%) | 11 (19.64%)††† | 38 (53.52%) | 34 (57.63%) | 30 (76.92%) | 10 (20.41%)††† | 23 (58.98%) | 11 (57.89%) |
| Mestizos | 15 (26.78%) | 45 (80.36) | 31 (43.66%) | 21 (35.59%) | 9 (23.07%) | 39 (79.59%) | 15 (38.46%) | 6 (31.59%) |
| Asian | 1 (1.78%) | – | 1 (1.41%) | 1 (1.69%) | – | – | – | 1 (5.26%) |
| Black | – | – | 1 (1.41%) | 3 (5.08%) | – | – | 1 (2.56%) | 1 (5.26%) |
| Marital status | ||||||||
| Married | 13 (23.21%) | 33 (58.93%)†† | 25 (35.21%) | 17 (28.82%) | 14 (35.90%) | 31 (63.26%)† | 23 (58.97%) | 8 (42.1%) |
| Remarried | 1 (1.79%) | 1 (1.79%) | 2 (2.82%) | 1 (1.69%) | – | 1 (2.05%) | 1 (2.56%) | – |
| Separated | 7 (12.5%) | 2 (3.57%) | 10 (14.08%) | 9 (15.25%) | 7 (17.94%) | 5 (10.20%) | 4 (10.26%) | 5 (26.32%) |
| Divorced | 4 (7.14%) | – | 6 (8.45%) | 5 (8.47%) | 4 (10.26%) | – | – | 1 (5.26%) |
| Never Married | 31 (55.36%) | 20 (35.71%) | 28 (39.44%) | 27 (45.77%) | 14 (35.90%) | 12 (24.49%) | 11 (28.21%) | 5 (26.32%) |
| Religion | ||||||||
| Daime/Barquinha | 56 (100%) | –††† | 71 (100%) | –††† | 39 (100%) | –††† | 39 (100%) | –††† |
| Catholics | – | 35 (62.5%) | – | 30 (58%) | – | 33 (67.35%) | – | 12 (63.16%) |
| Protestants | – | 15 (26.78%) | – | 17 (28.81%) | – | 10 (20.41%) | – | 7 (36.84%) |
| Others | – | 3 (5.36%) | – | 2 (3.39%) | – | 3 (61.12%) | – | – |
| None | – | 3 (5.36%) | – | 10 (16.95%) | – | 3 (6.12%) | – | – |
*
= p<0.05;
**
= p<0.01;
***
= p<0.001 in the Student’s t test.
†
= p<0.05;
††
= p<0.01;
†††
= p<0.001 in the χ2 test (comparison includes multiple categories).
Asterisks and crosses indicate p values for between group (ayahuasca vs. controls) Student’s t tests (age, education, employment and income) and χ2 tests (gender, race, marital status and religion) at baseline and at follow up for the Jungle and Urban samples. Aya. = Ayahuasca-using group; Comp. = comparison group.