Prevalence of Lifetime Substance Use, Column %
|
Overall
N = 506
|
Female sex workersa
N = 335
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Non-Sex workers
N = 171
|
χ2 testb
p-values
|
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Alcoholc
|
100
|
100
|
100
|
.....
|
Tobacco
|
67.4
|
73.4
|
55.6
|
<0.001
|
Any drugd
|
58.1
|
71.9
|
31.0
|
<0.001
|
Marijuana/Dagga/Ganja
|
55.1
|
67.5
|
31.0
|
<0.001
|
Ecstasy
|
3.4
|
4.2
|
1.8
|
0.152e
|
Crack
|
12.8
|
18.8
|
1.2
|
<0.001
|
Cocaine
|
2.6
|
3.6
|
0.6
|
0.044
|
Heroin/Thai White
|
6.9
|
9.3
|
2.3
|
0.004
|
Dagga and Heroin/Thai White
|
8.1
|
10.4
|
3.5
|
0.007
|
Cocaine and Heroin/Thai White
|
0.6
|
0.9
|
0.0
|
0.554e
|
Mandrax
|
1.2
|
1.5
|
0.6
|
0.669e
|
Dagga and Mandrax
|
1.2
|
1.8
|
0.0
|
0.101e
|
LSD
|
0.4
|
0.6
|
0.0
|
0.552e
|
Rohypnol/Shabba
|
3.0
|
4.2
|
0.6
|
0.024
|
Inhalants
|
3.0
|
4.5
|
0.0
|
0.005
|
Injection drug use
|
0.6
|
0.9
|
0.0
|
0.554e
|
- a Female sex workers are defined as females who had traded sex for drugs, money, food, or other goods in the past 90 days.
- b Pearson chi-square test
- NS: p > 0.05
- c Alcohol use was defined as any use of a whole alcohol drink in the lifetime.
- d Any drug use included the use of marijuana (Dagga or Ganja), Ecstasy, crack, cocaine, heroin (Thai White), Mandrax, LSD, Rohypnol (Shabba), or inhalants.
- e Fisher's exact test was used due to expected cell counts < 5.