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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 22.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2016 Nov 30;29(4):458–463. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2016.1259452

Table 3.

Using club drugs and alcohol abuse to predict poor adherence (log-binomial analyses, n=401)


Univariate Adjusted for significant background variableb
Row % PR(95%CI) P-value RR(95% CI) P-value
Club drug abuse
Use of any of the club drugs in the last six months
 No 27.2 1.00 1.00
 Yes 32.4 1.19 (0.68, 1.85) 0.485 1.19 (0.68, 1.83) 0.490
Use of methamphetamine in the last six months
 No 27.0 1.00 1.00
 Yes 35.5 1.31 (0.74, 2.04) 0.289 1.33 (0.75, 2.06) 0.256
Use of Ma Gu in the last six months
 No 27.5 1.00 1.00
 Yes 37.5 1.36 (0.40, 2.66) 0.503 1.26 (0.37, 2.43) 0.614
Use of Triazolam Tablets in the last six months
 No 27.7 1.00 1.00
 Yes 25.0 0.90 (0.06, 2.66) 0.906 0.95 (0.06, 2.82) 0.955
Use of ketamine in the last six months
 No 27.8 1.00 1.00
 Yes 20.0 0.72 (0.05, 2.30) 0.715 0.57 (0.04, 1.87) 0.538
Use of ecstasy in the last six months
 No 27.7 1.00 1.00
 Yes 25.0 0.90 (0.06, 2.66) 0.906 0.78 (0.05, 2.29) 0.778
Alcohol abuse
Overdrinking
 No 25.9 1.00 1.00
 Yes 34.1 1.32 (0.91, 1.83) 0.118 1.34 (0.93, 1.86) 0.092
Drinking frequency
 Never 28.6 1.00 1.00
 At least once 26.7 0.93 (0.68, 1.28) 0.676 0.95 (0.69, 1.31) 0.764
Drinks on a typical day when drinking
 1–2 drinks 23.6 1.00 1.00
 ≥3 drinks 32.3 1.37 (0.83, 2.19) 0.201 1.35 (0.83, 2.16) 0.214
Frequency of having 6 or more drinks on 1 occasion when drinking
 Never 21.3 1.00 1.00
 At least once 38.9 1.82 (1.13, 2.89) 0.011 1.87 (1.16, 2.95) 0.018
b

Log-binomial regression models adjusting for potential confounders (transfer treatment), which predicted poor adherence significantly at end of the study in a multivariate model (stepwise). RR: relative risk; CI: confidence interval.