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Table 5 Mean expectation scores depending on the workplace in the group of other health professionals (N = 82)

From: Opinion of health professionals and drug users before the forthcoming opening of the first drug consumption room in Paris: a quantitative cross-sectional study

(Mean of the answers and CI 95%)

Harm reduction professionals

N = 45

ER doctors

N = 5

Pharmacists

N = 30

 

Health care access of PWUD

1.62

[1.40; 1.85]

1.40

[0.72; 2.08]

0.40

[−0.24; 1.04]

KW = 11.70

p = 0.003

Frequency of drug use

− 0.33

[− 0.68; 0.01]

0.20

[− 0.36; 0.76]

0.76

[0.31; 1.21]

KW = 11.62

p = 0.003

Risk of drug-related infection

− 2.16

[− 2.49; − 1.82]

− 2.00

[− 2.88; − 1.12]

− 1.70

[− 2.22; − 1.18]

KW = 2.33

p = 0.312

Death by overdose

− 1.73

[− 2.04; − 1.41]

− 1.00

[− 1.88; − 0.12]

− 1.30

[− 1.64; −.96]

KW = 6.82

p = 0.033

Social disadvantages of the PWUD

− 0.98

[− 1.74; − 1.30]

− 0.80

[− 1.84; 0.24]

− 0.20

[− 0.56; 0.16]

KW = 10.74

p = 0.005

Sharing of used consumption devices

− 1.73

[− 2.24; − 1.23]

− 2.00

[− 3.24; − 0.76]

− 2.03

[− 2.51; − 1.56]

KW = 0.37

p = 0.830

Amount of new PWUD

0.02

[− 0.28; 0.33]

0.40

[−  0.71; 1.51]

0.27

[0.03; 0.51]

KW = 5.30

p = 0.070

Number of arrests for drug use

− 0.18

[− 0.53; 0.17]

0.00

[− 0.39; 0.39]

− 0.18

[− 0.53; 0.17]

KW = 1.04

p = 0.594

Quietness of the neighborhood

0.42

[− 0.01; 0.85]

− 1.20

[− 3.24; 0.84]

−1.23

[− 1.77; − 0.70]

KW = 20.091

p < 0.001

Amount of drug consumption devices abandoned in public

− 1.84

[− 2.19; − 1.50]

− 1.20

[− 1.76; − 0.64]

− 1.27

[− 1.79;− 0.74]

KW = 6.33

p = 0.042

Deal in the neighborhood

− 0.16

[−0.52; 0.21]

1.00

[− 0.24; 2.24]

0.33

[− 0.15; 0.82]

KW = 5.62

p = 0.060

Drug consumption in the public space

− 1.77

[− 2.09; − 1.45]

− 1.20

[− 1.76; − 0.64]

− 0.87

[− 1.30; − 0.43]

KW = 12.603

p = 0.002

Violence in the neighborhood

− 0.86

[− 1.20; − 0.53]

0.80

[− 0.24; 1.84]

0.20

[− 0.21; 0.61]

KW = 20.51

p < 0.001

Global health and quality of life of the PWUD

1.42

[1.17; 1.67]

1.00

[0.66; 1.34]

1.00

[1.00; 1.00]

KW = 6.12

p = 0.047

  1. PWUD persons who use drugs, ER emergency room, GP general practitioners, KW Kruskall-Wallis test
  2. Italic prints: p < 0.05