Table 2.
Perceptions of importance and difficulty of reentry tasks: country differences (N = 577)
| Reentry task | Total N = 577 |
AZ N = 191 |
KYR N = 146 |
UA N = 240 |
p valuea |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health-related tasks | |||||
| Getting treatment for illnesses other than HIV | |||||
| Easy | 211 (36.6) | 86 (45.0) | 43 (29.5) | 82 (34.2) | < 0.001 |
| Hard | 281 (48.7) | 91 (47.6) | 67 (45.9) | 123 (51.2) | |
| Not applicable | 85 (14.7) | 14 (7.3) | 36 (24.7) | 35 (14.6) | |
| Getting help staying off drugs | |||||
| Easy | 204 (35.4) | 61 (31.9) | 36 (24.7) | 107 (44.6) | < 0.001 |
| Hard | 269 (46.6) | 120 (62.8) | 44 (30.1) | 105 (43.8) | |
| Not applicable | 104 (18.0) | 10 (5.2) | 66 (45.2) | 28 (11.7) | |
| Getting methadone treatment | |||||
| Easy | 148 (25.6) | 61 (31.9) | 28 (19.2) | 59 (24.6) | < 0.001 |
| Hard | 224 (38.8) | 111 (58.1) | 14 (9.6) | 99 (41.2) | |
| Not applicable | 205 (35.5) | 19 (9.9) | 104 (71.2) | 82 (34.2) | |
| Everyday life tasks | |||||
| Finding a job or a stable source of income | |||||
| Easy | 218 (37.8) | 44 (23.0) | 66 (45.2) | 108 (45.0) | < 0.001 |
| Hard | 353 (61.2) | 146 (76.4) | 75 (51.4) | 132 (55.0) | |
| Not applicable | 6 (1.0) | 1 (0.5) | 5 (3.4) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Reuniting with family or friends | |||||
| Easy | 338 (58.6) | 93 (48.7) | 80 (54.8) | 165 (68.8) | < 0.001 |
| Hard | 210 (36.4) | 92 (48.2) | 45 (30.8) | 73 (30.4) | |
| Not applicable | 29 (5.0) | 6 (3.1) | 21 (14.4) | 2 (0.8) | |
| Staying out of prison following release | |||||
| Easy | 239 (41.4) | 74 (38.7) | 54 (37.0) | 111 (46.2) | < 0.001 |
| Hard | 313 (54.2) | 116 (60.7) | 76 (52.1) | 121 (50.4) | |
| Not applicable | 25 (4.3) | 1 (0.5) | 16 (11.0) | 8 (3.3) | |
| The most important task | |||||
| Getting treatment for illnesses other than HIV | 6 (1.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 6 (2.5) | < 0.001 |
| Getting help staying off drugs | 16 (2.8) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (2.9) | 12 (5.0) | |
| Getting methadone treatment | 2 (0.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.8) | |
| Finding a job or a stable source of income | 363 (62.9) | 131 (70.4) | 100 (72.5) | 132 (55.2) | |
| Reuniting with family or friends | 66 (11.4) | 40 (21.5) | 8 (5.8) | 18 (7.5) | |
| Staying out of prison following release | 47 (8.1) | 1 (0.5) | 12 (8.7) | 34 (14.2) | |
Data is presented in the form N (%). Values may not sum up to totals due to missing values, and percentages may not sum up to 100 due to rounding
AZ Azerbaijan, KYR Kyrgyzstan, UA Ukraine
ap value for chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test