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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2010 Oct;14(5):1045–1054. doi: 10.1007/s10461-010-9695-y

Table 2.

Alcohol and drug dependency and use of different substances among both partners, male partner only and female partner only (N = 535 couples)

Frequency (%) Neither Female only Male only Both ORCMH
(95% CI)
Alcohol dependency 379 (71.78%) 48(9.09%) 79(14.96%) 22(4.17%) 1.65(1.15, 2.36)**
Drug dependency 374(71.37%) 50(9.54%) 70(13.36%) 30(5.73%) 1.40(0.97, 2.01)+
Substance use in the past 90 days
  Used any substances to get high or relax 240(45.80%) 60(11.45%) 119(22.71%) 105(20.04%) 1.98(1.45, 2.71)****
  Smoked marijuana 318(61.15%) 56(10.77%) 92(17.69%) 54(10.38%) 1.64(1.18, 2.29)**
  Injected heroin, cocaine or any other drugs 480(92.84%) 11(2.13%) 21(4.06%) 5(0.97%) 1.91(0.92, 3.96)+
  Used any other illegal drugs 337(65.31%) 50(9.69%) 78(15.12%) 51(9.88%) 1.56(1.09, 2.23)*

Odds ratios for males only versus females only (OR), confidence intervals (CI) and P-values are from the Cochran–Mantel–Haenszel (CMH) chi-square test for categorical variables

+

P < 0.10,

*

P < 0.05,

**

P < 0.01,

***

P < 0.001,

****

P < 0.0001