Table 1.
Sample characteristics by boredom among injection drug users in the STEP study (n=845)
| Total | Low Boredom (n=563) |
High Boredom (n=282) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | n (%) | n (%) | n (%) |
x2 test statistic |
p-value | |
| Age > 43 years | 842 | 459 (54.5) | 331 (59.0) | 128 (45.6) | 13.66 | 0.000 |
| Female gender | 845 | 307 (36.3) | 201 (35.7) | 106 (37.6) | 0.29 | 0.591 |
| African-American race/ethnicity | 842 | 677 (80.4) | 474 (84.6) | 203 (72.0) | 19.07 | 0.000 |
| Education > 12 years | 845 | 380 (45.1) | 251 (44.6) | 129 (45.7) | 0.10 | 0.749 |
| Daily injection | 845 | 442 (52.3) | 282 (50.1) | 160 (56.7) | 3.33 | 0.068 |
| Depressive symptoms > 16 | 842 | 446 (53.0) | 302 (53.8) | 239 (85.1) | 79.5 | 0.000 |
| Type of drug use in past 6m | ||||||
| Injected heroin | 845 | 782 (92.5) | 267 (94.7) | 515 (91.5) | 2.80 | 0.094 |
| Inject cocaine | 845 | 553 (65.4) | 363 (64.5) | 190 (67.4) | 0.70 | 0.403 |
| Injected speedball | 845 | 641 (75.9) | 420 (74.6) | 221 (78.4) | 1.46 | 0.227 |
| Snort heroin | 844 | 382 (45.3) | 244 (43.4) | 138 (48.9) | 2.31 | 0.129 |
| Snort cocaine | 842 | 199 (23.6) | 133 (23.7) | 66 (23.5) | 0.01 | 0.943 |
| Smoke crack | 845 | 545 (64.5) | 348 (61.8) | 197 (69.9) | 5.31 | 0.021 |
| Reported HIV-positive | 842 | 119 (14.1) | 78 (13.9) | 41 (14.6) | 0.07 | 0.787 |
| Current main partner | 845 | 494 (58.5) | 353 (62.7) | 141 (50.0) | 12.48 | 0.000 |
| Homeless in the past 6m | 845 | 311 (36.8) | 181 (32.2) | 130 (46.1) | 15.72 | 0.000 |
| Jail or prison in past 6m | 845 | 243 (28.8) | 144 (25.6) | 99 (35.1) | 8.33 | 0.004 |
| Employed at least part-time in past 6m | 845 | 140 (16.6) | 109 (19.4) | 31 (11.0) | 9.52 | 0.002 |