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Table 1 Basic demographic characteristics of compulsory detoxification and MMT patients

From: Assessment of attitudes towards methadone maintenance treatment between heroin users at a compulsory detoxification centre and methadone maintenance clinic in Ningbo, China

 

Compulsory detoxification

MMT

Number of participants

329

112

  Male

255 (77.5%)

85 (75.9%)

  Female

67 (20.4%)

18 (16.1%)

Age

16–50

19–51

  Male

16–50

19–51

  Female

21–44

27–45

Ethnicity

  

  Han

322 (97.9%)

96 (85.7%)

  Minority

5 (1.5%)

1 (1%)

Marital Status

  

  Single

155 (47.1%)

47 (42.0%)

  Married

129 (39.2%)

37 (33.1%)

  Divorced

39 (11.9%)

14 (12.5%)

  Widowed

2 (0.6%)

0 (0.0%)

Employment

  

  Full-time

38 (11.6%)

12 (10.7%)

  Part-time

52 (15.8%)

16 (14.3%)

  Unemployed

231(70.2%)

64 (57.1%)

Heroin Use

  

  Daily

105 (31.9%)

54 (48.2%)

  Frequently

118 (35.9%)

32 (28.6%)

  Occasionally

106 (32.2%)

14 (12.5%)

  Never

0 (0.0%)

2 (1.8%)