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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Drug Policy. 2014 Feb 28;25(5):845–852. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2014.02.010

Table 4.

Independent correlates of within prison drug injection

Covariate UOR 95% CI p-value AOR 95% CI p-value
Recruitment in Kyiv 5.02 2.07 – 12.21 <0.001 7.46 1.99 – 27.92 0.003
Age 0.96 0.92 – 1.01 0.140 0.95 0.93 – 1.07 0.080
Male gender 17.10 2.09 – 140.01 0.008 22.07 1.69 – 155.38 0.006
Opioid use in the 30 days before prison 7.42 2.42 – 22.68 <0.001 8.67 1.91 – 39.44 0.005
Injection behavior in the 30 days before prison
 No injection Ref -- Ref --
 Injection, no high- risk injection 6.75 0.93 – 49.23 0.060 2.83 0.16 – 47.35 0.417
 High-risk injection 7.39 1.50 – 36.71 0.014 2.95 0.15 – 15.21 0.293
AIC = 81.93

Legend: UOR=unadjusted odds ratio; AOR=adjusted odds ratio; 95% CI=confidence interval; AIC=Akaike Information Criterion