Table 3.
Reasons for unwillingness to initiate OAT in people who inject drugs who have never been in an OAT program
| Total N=587 |
Kyiv N=91 |
Odesa N=114 |
Mykolaiv N=117 |
Dnipropetrovsk N=150 |
Lviv N=115 |
P-value | |
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| N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | N (%) | ||
| I believe OAT only replaces one addiction for another | 471 (80.2) | 69 (75.8) | 97 (85.1) | 99 (84.6) | 129 (86.0) | 77 (67.0) | 0.0005 |
| I believe OAT is bad for my health | 452 (77.0) | 63 (69.2) | 91 (79.8) | 100 (85.5) | 125 (83.3) | 73 (63.5) | <0.0001 |
| I do not believe OAT will treat my addiction | 435 (74.1) | 69 (75.8) | 85 (74.6) | 85 (72.6) | 121 (80.7) | 75 (65.2) | 0.0786 |
| I believe OAT has bad side effects | 430 (73.3) | 56 (61.5) | 90 (79.0) | 96 (82.1) | 120 (80.0) | 68 (59.1) | <0.0001 |
| I am not ready to begin OAT | 410 (69.8) | 57 (62.6) | 90 (78.9) | 81 (69.2) | 109 (72.7) | 73 (63.5) | 0.0491 |
| I have heard negative things about OAT | 389 (66.3) | 55 (60.4) | 85 (74.6) | 89 (76.1) | 114 (76.0) | 46 (40.0) | <0.0001 |
| I do not want to register as a drug user with the Narcology center | 367 (62.5) | 61 (67.0) | 77 (67.5) | 62 (53.0) | 90 (60.0) | 77 (67.0) | 0.0944 |
| I am afraid of OAT treatment | 358 (61.0) | 44 (48.3) | 72 (63.2) | 77 (65.8) | 107 (71.3) | 58 (50.4) | 0.0006 |
| I can stop using the drugs on my own | 355 (60.5) | 57 (62.6) | 69 (60.5) | 83 (70.9) | 92 (61.3) | 54 (47.0) | 0.0062 |
| I will not be able to detox from OAT | 350 (59.6) | 47 (51.6) | 75 (65.8) | 75 (64.1) | 105 (70.0) | 48 (41.7) | <0.0001 |
| My family will not approve (does not want me to) participate in OAT | 343 (58.4) | 48 (52.8) | 71 (62.3) | 79 (67.5) | 83 (55.3) | 62 (53.9) | 0.1141 |
| I do not want to go to the site every day | 336 (57.2) | 44 (48.4) | 74 (64.9) | 72 (61.5) | 91 (60.7) | 55 (47.8) | 0.0220 |