Table 5.
Comparisons among people who inject drugs (PWID), high-risk heterosexuals (HRH) and men who have sex with men (MSM) on how they react when their dignity is attacked *
| Never | Rarely | Sometimes | Often | Very often | Number of cases | p (PWID vs. HRH) p (Linear-by-linear association)) | p (PWID vs. MSM) p (Linear-by-linear association) | p (HRH vs MSM) p (Linear-by-linear association) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I tell them off | <.001 | <.001 | .011 | ||||||
| PWID | 25% | 19% | 40% | 8% | 8% | 248 | |||
| HRH | 7% | 16% | 46% | 24% | 7% | 200 | |||
| MSM | 7% | 19% | 57% | 16% | 1% | 181 | |||
| I cry inside | <.001 | <.001 | .120 | ||||||
| PWID | 26% | 25% | 23% | 13% | 13% | 249 | |||
| HRH | 49% | 21% | 24% | 3% | 4% | 191 | |||
| MSM | 40% | 23% | 25% | 9% | 2% | 170 | |||
| I cry openly | .001 | .002 | .660 | ||||||
| PWID | 57% | 20% | 13% | 5% | 5% | 247 | |||
| HRH | 73% | 10% | 15% | 1% | 1% | 190 | |||
| MSM | 63% | 23% | 12% | 1% | 0% | 170 | |||
| I tried to hurt them physically | .343 | .016 | .186 | ||||||
| PWID | 74% | 16% | 5% | 2% | 2% | 191 | |||
| HRH | 74% | 10% | 10% | 4% | 2% | 187 | |||
| MSM | 57% | 26% | 15% | 2% | 1% | 168 | |||
| I tried to hurt myself physically | <.001 | .466 | <.001 | ||||||
| PWID | 61% | 18% | 10% | 6% | 5% | 192 | |||
| HRH | 86% | 7% | 3% | 2% | 1% | 184 | |||
| MSM | 61% | 17% | 14% | 5% | 0% | 160 | |||
| I shrug it off, pretend I don’t care, and do nothing | .348 | .884 | .264 | ||||||
| PWID | 6% | 5% | 24% | 26% | 39% | 249 | |||
| HRH | 2% | 3% | 36% | 32% | 27% | 199 | |||
| MSM | 1% | 7% | 29% | 28% | 35% | 181 | |||
| I use more drugs | <.001 | <.001 | .260 | ||||||
| PWID | 16% | 21% | 36% | 10% | 17% | 248 | |||
| HRH | 25% | 35% | 28% | 4% | 8% | 191 | |||
| MSM | 20% | 33% | 29% | 15% | 2% | 168 | |||
| I use more alcohol | .579 | .077 | .012 | ||||||
| PWID | 34% | 23% | 24% | 7% | 12% | 228 | |||
| HRH | 26% | 33% | 31% | 4% | 6% | 194 | |||
| MSM | 18% | 23% | 41% | 15% | 2% | 165 | |||
| I have more sex | .034 | .006 | <.001 | ||||||
| PWID | 68% | 21% | 6% | 3% | 2% | 173 | |||
| HRH | 73% | 22% | 4% | 1% | 0% | 187 | |||
| MSM | 44% | 39% | 13% | 1% | 2% | 164 | |||
| I think about changing what I do, or what I look like to prove them wrong | <.001 | <.001 | <.001 | ||||||
| PWID | 18% | 16% | 30% | 16% | 20% | 244 | |||
| HRH | 29% | 18% | 28% | 17% | 7% | 196 | |||
| MSM | 47% | 16% | 28% | 8% | 2% | 173 |
*
The question asked was: When they attack your dignity, how often do you react in each of these ways? (We ask them to circle each of a list of possible answers)