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Table 4 Comparison of health and social situation from ASI for persons who misused opioids, divided into two groups, opiates vs. other opioids

From: Type of opioid dependence among patients seeking opioid substitution treatment: are there differences in background and severity of problems?

 

n = 127

Opiates

Other opioids

Crude

 

81/46a

81

46

p-values

Medical status %:

   

(a)

 Chronic medical problem

81/46

70.4

78.3

.334

 Hepatitis C

81/44

66.7

38.6

.003**

 Income from health insurance for medical problems

81/45

19.8

20.0

.973

Sources of financial support last 30 days %:

    

 Health insurance

80/46

38.8

50.0

.219

 Employment

80/46

17.5

8.7

.174

 Psychiatric problems, previous experienced %:

    

 Serious depression

79/46

73.4

84.8

.142

 Serious anxiety

78/46

79.5

87.0

.293

 Serious suicide thoughts

77/43

61.0

74.1

.138

 Suicide attempts

76/44

2.0

1.6

.150

 Victim of emotional abuse

77/42

64.3

66.2

.831

 Victim of physical abuse

76/43

55.3

58.1

.761

 Victim of sexual abuse

76/42

23.7

21.4

.780

 Treatment for psychiatric problem in hospital, m (sd)

78/45

2.7 (6.2)

2.5 (6.3)

.691(b)

Legal problems, m (sd):

Type of charges

   

(b)

 - Drug-related crimes

77/38

6.7 (12.9)

3.4 (10.0)

.550

 - Crimes against property

76/39

7.7 (17.1)

4.1 (9.3)

.136

 - Crimes of violence

77/42

2.6 (7.1)

1.9 (3.7)

.331

Apprehended for

    

 - Driving drunk/doped

76/42

1.8 (3.9)

1.0 (1.9)

.145

 - Serious traffic crimes

76/41

3.6 (7.7)

0.7 (1.9)

.002**

 - Other crimes

77/39

2.4 (7.3)

1.4 (4.9)

.239

Social status %:

    

Housing residence

81/46

  

.840 (a)

 - Own housing contract

 

61

61

 

 - Other housing

 

33

30

 

 - Homeless

 

6

9

 
  1. M (sd) = Mean (standard deviation). Significance tested by: a) Chi-2, b) T-test for independent groups
  2. aOpiates group/Other opioids group. ** Significant after Bonferroni-Holm correction