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. 2022 Jan 17;12:801. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-04832-9

Table 2.

Drug use and sex risk behavior amongst participants.

Variables Ketamine (n = 159) Poly drugs (n = 26) Cigarette (n = 49) Total (n = 234) F/χ2 p
Mean (SD) or n (%) Mean (SD) or n (%) Mean (SD) or n (%) Mean (SD) or n (%)
Drug-related variables
Ketamine use routes 2.23 .136
Smoking 152 (95.6) 23 (88.5) 175 (94.6)
Snorting 7 (4.4) 3 (11.5) 10 (5.4)
Days used in past 30 days 13.74 (11.18) 18.50 (10.60) 14.41 (11.19) 4.11 .044
Ketamine use duration (months) 43.46 (42.88) 47.04 (44.85) 43.98 (43.06) 0.15 .697
Ketamine dose used per time (g) 0.44 (0.54) 0.58 (1.28) 0.46 (0.69) 0.99 .321
Addiction severity index
Alcohol composite score 0.160 (0.151) 0.073 (0.091) 0.158 (0.118) 0.150 (0.141) 4.45 .013
Drug composite score 0.069 (0.059) 0.112 (0.074) 0.003 (0.014) 0.059 (0.063) 39.15* .000
Sex-related risk
Multiple sexual partners 2.19 .335
No 121 (76.1) 18 (69.2) 41 (83.7) 180 (76.9)
Yes 38 (23.9) 8 (30.8) 8 (16.3) 54 (23.1)
Exchanging drugs/money/sex 30 days 4.95 .084
No 146 (91.8) 23 (88.5) 49 (100.0) 218 (93.2)
Yes 13 (8.2) 3 (11.5) 0 (0) 16 (6.8)
Condom use in 6 months 4.00 .676
Did not use 20 (12.6) 3 (11.5) 4 (8.2) 27 (11.5)
Occasionally 32 (20.1) 7 (26.9) 13 (26.5) 52 (22.2)
Often 21 (13.2) 4 (15.4) 3 (6.1) 28 (12.0)
Always/no sex 86 (54.1) 12 (46.2) 29 (59.2) 127 (54.3)

Bonferroni correction was used to adjust multiple comparisons. Tukey’s method was performed to test the post-hoc difference.

*p < .05/9 = .0056.