Setting foot in private spaces: extending the hepatitis C cascade of care to automatic needle/syringe dispensing machines, a mixed methods study

Table 2 Survey participants’ demographic characteristics and drug use patterns

	Total (%) n = 70	Female (%) n = 28	Male (%) n = 41	p-value
Age (years)
20 s	9 (13)	5 (18)	4 (10)
30 s	19 (27)	7 (25)	11 (27)
40 s	25 (36)	10 (36)	15 (37)
50 s+	17 (24)	6 (21)	11 (27)	0.822
Median (range)	42 (21–67)	42 (21–67)	43 (25–61)	0.625^a
Residential Postcode
Local health district	58 (83)	26 (93)	31 (77)
Other^b	12 (17)	2 (7)	9 (23)	0.108
Last drug injected^c
Heroin	21 (31)	11 (41)	9 (23)
Methamphetamine	39 (58)	15 (56)	24 (62)
Other^c	7 (10)	1 (4)	6 (15)	0.150
Frequency of injecting^c
Daily or more	29 (41)	16 (59)	12 (32)
< Daily	37 (53)	11 (41)	26 (68)	0.026

^aMann–Whitney U = 614
^bOther: Other health districts (n = 11); Missing (n = 1)
^cDoesn’t inject (n = 3) excluded from the analysis; ^cOther: Methadone (n = 1); fentanyl (n = 1); ketamine (n = 1); human growth hormone (n = 1); unspecified (n = 3)

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