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Table 1 Sociodemographic and health characteristics of NIDUs, FIDUs and current IDUs

From: Differences in sociodemographic, drug use and health characteristics between never, former and current injecting, problematic hard-drug users in the Netherlands

Characteristic

Total

NIDU

FIDU

IDU

Test statistic P

 

n(%)

n(%)

n(%)

n(%)

 
 

202 (100)

64 (32)

76 (38)

62 (31)

 

Sociodemographic

     

Male

164 (81)

49 (77)

62 (82)

53 (86)

0.438

Age, years

    

0.343

  ≤39

41 (20)

13 (20)

15 (20)

13 (21)

 

  40–49

89 (44)

27 (42)

29 (38)

33 (53)

  ≥50

72 (36)

24 (38)

32 (42)

16 (26)

Ethnicity

    

0.000***

  Native Dutch

115 (57)

26 (41)

50 (66)

39 (63)

 

  Western immigrant

46 (23)

9 (14)

21 (28)

16 (26)

  Non-Western immigrant

41 (20)

29 (45)

5 (7)

7 (11)

Possession of passport or identification card

173 (86)

55 (86)

69 (91)

49 (79)

0.146

High school completion

126 (62)

39 (61)

48 (63)

39 (63)

0.959

Stable housing

153 (76)

56 (88)

55 (72)

42 (68)

0.024*

Social welfare payment

192 (95)

61 (95)

71 (93)

60 (97)

0.660

Paid or volunteer work

84 (42)

28 (44)

29 (38)

27 (44)

0.745

Illegal income

53 (26)

10 (16)

17 (22)

26 (42)

0.003**

Debts (in euro)

145 (71)

50 (78)

51 (67)

44 (71)

0.348

  0–10,000

22 (15)

8 (16)

11 (22)

3 (7)

 

  10,001–100,000

62 (43)

19 (38)

25 (49)

18 (41)

  100,001–500,000

49 (34)

17 (34)

11 (21)

21 (48)

  >500,000

9 (6)

4 (8)

3 (6)

2 (5)

  Unknown

3 (2)

2 (4)

1 (2)

-

Debt help

96 (66)

36 (72)

38 (75)

22 (50)

0.024*

Health

     

Good perceived health

86 (43)

27 (42)

33 (43)

26 (42)

0.982

Visit physician for physical complaints (past 12 months)

136 (67)

44 (69)

50 (66)

42 (68)

0.930

  1–4

88 (65)

24 (56)

33 (66)

31 (74)

0.271

  5–10

29 (22)

11 (26)

9 (18)

9 (21)

  >10

18 (13)

8 (19)

8 (16)

2 (5)

Visit psychiatrist/other mental health care professional (past 12 months)

70 (35)

19 (30)

26 (34)

25 (40)

0.453

  1. *p ≤ 0.05, **p ≤ 0.01, ***p ≤ 0.001.