Table 2 Comparison of the 30-days items between pre-COVID and COVID periods
| Â | Total | Usual care | Accessible care | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pre-COVID | COVID | Pre-COVID | COVID | Pre-COVID | COVID | |
(n = 60; 56.6% | (n = 46; 43.3%) | (n = 30; 57.7%) | (n = 22; 42.3%) | (n = 30; 55.6%) | (n = 24; 44.4%) | |
% | % | % | % | % | % | |
Mental health | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 Experienced serious depression | 52.5 | 84.8** | 58.6 | 90.9* | 46.7 | 79.2* |
 Experienced serious anxiety or tension? | 49.2 | 84.8** | 48.3 | 90.9** | 50.0 | 79.2* |
 Experienced serious thoughts or suicide? | 5.1 | 13.0 | 3.4 | 18.2 | 6.7 | 8.3 |
 Attempted suicide? | 1.7 | 2.2 | 0.0 | 4.5 | 3.3 | 0.0 |
 In the past 30 have you experienced any psychological or emotional problems? | 50.0 | 80.4** | 53.3 | 81.8* | 46.7 | 79.2* |
 How much have you been troubled or bothered by these psychological or emotional problems in the past 30 days? (Considerably/Extremely) | 37.3 | 66.7** | 34.6 | 84.2** | 40.0 | 52.2 |
 How important to you now is treatment for these psychological problems? (Considerably/Extremely) | 37.3 | 57.1^ | 30.8 | 68.4* | 44.0 | 47.8 |
| Â | Mean (std) | Mean (std) | Mean (std) | Mean (std) | Mean (std) | Mean (std) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Injection frequency and risk behavior | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
 In the past 30 days, how many days have you injected drugs? (mean) | 9.3 (12.6) | 9.3 (13.0) | 10.2 (13.5) | 16.0 (14.9) | 8.5 (11.9) | 3.2 (7.0)^ |
 On the days that you injected, on average how many times a day did you inject? (mean) | 1.9 (3.3) | 1.3 (2.4) | 1.6 (2.4) | 1.6 (1.7) | 2.1 (4.1) | 1.1 (2.9)^ |
 In the past 30 days when you injected, how many times did you use a new, sterile syringe? (mean) | 32.9 (69.5) | 15.6 (31.6) | 35.6 (69.7) | 28.6 (41.3) | 30.1 (70.3) | 3.0 (5.9)* |
| Â | % | % | % | % | % | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
In the past 30Â days when you injected, did you use a new, sterile syringe? | 55.0 | 45.7 | 56.7 | 63.6 | 53.3 | 29.2^ |
In the past 30Â days, did you reuse your own syringes? | 8.3 | 19.6^ | 6.7 | 31.8* | 10.0 | 8.3 |
In the past 30Â days, did you give your used syringe for other to use? | 6.7 | 10.9 | 6.7 | 18.2 | 6.7 | 4.2 |
In the past 30Â days, did you use a syringe that had already been used by somebody else? | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 6.7 | 0.0 |
In the past 30Â days, how many times did you share cookers? | 15.0 | 21.7 | 16.7 | 45.5* | 13.3 | 0.0 |
In the past 30Â days, did you share cottons/filters | 15.0 | 21.7 | 16.7 | 45.5* | 13.3 | 0.0 |
In the past 30Â days, did you share drug diluting water? | 15.0 | 21.7 | 16.7 | 45.5* | 13.8 | 0.0 |
In the past 30Â days, did you share a water container? | 15.0 | 21.7 | 16.7 | 45.5* | 13.8 | 0.0 |
In the past 30Â days, did you use drugs that had been divided with a syringe (e.g., backloading)? | 16.7 | 17.4 | 16.7 | 36.4 | 16.7 | 0.0^ |