Table 4.

Univariate analysis of factors associated with other health professionals’ answers (N = 82)

	Age (Spearman’s rho)	Sex F = 47 M = 32 (MW)	District of exercise 9th N = 8 10th N = 36 18th N = 25 19th N = 11 (KW)	Experience in addiction medicine Yes N = 53 No N = 22 (MW)	Years of practice of addiction medicine (Spearman’s rho)
Health care access of PWUD	r = − 0.127 p = 0.266	F, 1.40 (± 1.1) M, 0.75 (± 1.5) U = 527 p = 0.018	KW = 5.498 p = 0.139	U = 461 p = 0.136	r = 0.032 p = 0.781
Frequency of drug use	r = 0.077 p = 0.504	U = 691 p = 0.680	9th 1.0 ± 1.29 10th − 0.11 ± 1.0 18th 0.48 ± 1.3 19th − 0.64 ± 1.0 KW = 9.232 p = 0.026	U = 453 p = 0.175	r = − 0.062 p = 0.592
Risk of drug-related infection	r = − 0.165 p = 0.148	U = 692 p = 0.526	KW = 0.685 p = 0.877	U = 582 p = 0.990	r = − 0.102 p = 0.439
Death by overdose	r = − 0.146 p = 0.204	U = 614 p = 0.190	KW = 0.730 p = 0.866	U = 442 p = 0.105	r = − 0.073 p = 0.527
Social disadvantages of the PWUD	r = − 0.064 p = 0.580	U = 701 p = 0.600	KW = 5.439 p = 0.142	Yes − 0.79 (± 1.10) No − 0.17 (± 1.10) U = 345 p = 0.004	r = − 0.260 p = 0.022
Sharing of used consumption devices	r = 0.063 p = 0.584	F, − 2.38 (± 0.8) M, − 1.06 (± 1.8) U = 410 p = < 0.001	KW = 2.735 p = 0.434	U = 558 p = 0.758	r = − 0.021 p = 0.858
Amount of new PWUD	r = − 0.103 p = 0.370	U = 718 p = 0.688	KW = 4.344 p = 0.227	U = 486 p = 0.177	r = − 0.137 p = 0.231
Number of arrests for drug use	r = − 0.255 p = 0.025*	F, − 0.15 (± 1.0) M, − 0.47 (± 1.0) U = 504 p = 0.009	KW = 3.632 p = 0.304	U = 450 p = 0.113	r = − 0.198 p = 0.084
Quietness of the neighborhood	r = − 0.037 p = 0.746	U = 692 p = 0.542	KW = 6.259 p = 0.100	Yes 0.00 (± 1.53) No − 1.32 (± 1.61) U = 321 p = 0.002	r = 0.231 p = 0.042
Amount of drug consumption devices abandoned in public	r = − 0.061 p = 0.593	U = 715 p = 0.705	KW = 2.428 p = 0.488	U = 479 p = 0.209	r = − 0.120 p = 0.297
Deal in the neighborhood	r = 0.000 p = 0.997	U = 746 p = 0.950	KW = 5.794 p = 0.122	U = 428 p = 0.060	r = −  0.069 p = 0.547
Drug use in public	r = 0.032 p = 0.783	U = 695 p = 0.668	KW = 4.612 p = 0.203	Yes − 1.52 (± 1.09) No − 0.86 (± 1.16) U = 390 p = 0.026	r = − 0.218 p = 0.057
Violence in the neighborhood	r = − 0.078 p = 0.503	U = 668 p = 0.481	9th 0.75 ± 1.16 10th − 0.37 ± 1.26 18th − 0.40 ± 1.19 19th − 1.00 ± 0.77 KW = 9.090 p = 0.028	Yes − 0.57 (± 1.11) No 0.36 (± 1.12) U = 347 p = 0.005	r = − 0.257 p = 0.024
Global health and quality of life of the PWUD	r = − 0.116 p = 0.317	U = 680 p = 0.579	9th 1.0 ± 0.75 10th 1.36 ± 0.59 18th 0.92 ± 1.13 19th 1.73 ± 0.64 KW = 8.247 p = 0.041	U = 461 p = 0.131	r = 0.131 p = 0.258

MW Mann-Whitney’s U test, KW Kruskal-Wallis test, r Spearman’s correlation test, p statistical significance

Italic prints: p < 0.05