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Table 1 Demographic and social characteristics of study participants

From: Seroprevalence of select bloodborne pathogens and associated risk behaviors among injection drug users in the Paso del Norte region of the United States – Mexico border

 

Doña Ana County, NM

(n = 100)

Ciudad Juárez, MX

(n = 204)

El Paso, TX

(n = 155)

Chi-square

p-valuea

All sites

(n = 459)

Sex, n (%)

     

   Male

80 (80.0)

189 (92.7)

132 (85.2)

 

401 (87.4)

   Female

20 (20.0)

15 (7.4)

23 (14.8)

0.005

58 (12.6)

Age. mean (median)

41.8 (42.0)

35.3 (33.0)

42.0 (42.0)

< 0.0001b

39.0 (38.0)

Hispanic, n (%)

     

   Yes

69 (69.0)

203 (99.5)

117 (75.5)

 

389 (84.7)

   No

31 (31.0)

1 (0.5)

35 (22.5)

< 0.0001

67 (14.6)

   No answer

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

3 (1.9)

 

3 (0.7)

Country of birth, n (%)

     

   USA

94 (94.0)

4 (2.0)

139 (89.7)

 

237 (51.6)

   Mexico

4 (4.0)

200 (98.0)

14 (9.0)

 

218 (47.5)

   Other

1 (1.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.6)

 

2 (0.4)

   No answer

1 (1.0)

0 (0.0)

1 (0.6)

 

2 (0.4)

Years of education, mean (median)

10.9 (11.5)

7.1 (7.0)

10.8 (11)

< 0.0001b

9.2 (9.0)

Marital status, n (%)

     

   Unmarried

41 (41.0)

105 (51.5)

66 (42.6)

 

212 (46.2)

   Married

27 (27.0)

62 (30.4)

36 (23.2)

 

125 (27.2)

   Divorced/Separated/Widowed

32 (32.0)

36 (17.6)

52 (33.5)

0.007

120 (26.1)

   No answer

0 (0.0)

1 (0.5)

1 (0.6)

 

2 (0.4)

Social network, mean (median)

21.0 (10.0)

52.2 (20.0)

28.5 (15.0)

0.002b

37.4 (20.0)

Days since last injection, mean (median)

5.2 (2.0)

0.8 (0.0)

3.7 (1.0)

< 0.0001b

2.7 (1.0)

Family ever inject drugs*, n (%)

     

   None

49 (49.0)

118 (57.8)

84 (54.2)

 

251 (54.7)

   Mother/father

10 (10.0)

12 (5.9)

13 (8.4)

 

35 (7.6)

   Sibling

40 (40.0)

49 (24.0)

51 (32.9)

 

140 (30.5)

   Cousin

12 (12.0)

17 (8.3)

18 (11.6)

 

47 (10.2)

   Aunt/uncle

17 (17.0)

15 (3.3)

22 (14.2)

 

54 (11.8)

   Other

11 (11.0)

24 (5.2)

20 (12.9)

 

55 (12.0)

   Don't know

2 (2.0)

2 (0.4)

4 (2.6)

 

8 (1.7)

Ever have tattoo

     

   Yes

80 (80.0)

167 (81.9)

119 (76.8)

 

366 (79.7)

   No

20 (20.0)

37 (18.1)

33 (21.3)

0.702

90 (19.6)

   No answer

0 (0.0)

0 (0.0)

3 (1.9)

 

3 (0.7)

  1. *Categories are not mutually exclusive and therefore percentages may be greater than 100%.
  2. a Chi-square test of independence used to observe differences in categorical variables across sites.
  3. b ANOVA used to compare means across sites.
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