Knowledge and possession of take-home naloxone kits among street-involved youth in a Canadian setting: a cohort study

Table 2 Bivariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses of factors associated with knowledge of THN

Characteristics	Unadjusted		Adjusted
Characteristics	Odds ratio (95% CI)	p value	Odds ratio (95% CI)	p value
Age (per year younger)	1.06 (0.94–1.20)	0.352	1.05 (0.88–1.26)	0.587
Gender (male vs. female)	0.57 (0.28–1.14)	0.119	0.61 (0.24–1.49)	0.283
White ethnicity (yes vs. no)	2.74 (1.41–5.43)	0.003	2.36 (1.02–5.61)	0.047
Downtown Eastside residence^a (yes vs. no)	0.94 (0.46–1.99)	0.863	0.43 (0.15–1.19)	0.108
Ever homeless (yes vs. no)	2.83 (1.09–7.38)	0.031	1.99 (0.54–7.34)	0.297
High school completion (yes vs. no)	0.82 (0.43–1.57)	0.551	0.94 (0.40–2.20)	0.883
Employment^a (yes vs. no)	0.79 (0.38–1.69)	0.534	0.91 (0.36–2.37)	0.842
Incarceration^a (yes vs. no)	2.43 (0.87–8.67)	0.120	1.84 (0.50–8.08)	0.380
Daily heroin use^a (yes vs. no)	4.02 (1.70–11.17)	0.003	2.37 (0.73–9.03)	1.171
Daily cocaine or crack use^a (yes vs. no)	0.25 (0.06–0.90)	0.036	0.09 (0.01–0.59)	0.016
Daily methamphetamine use^a (yes vs. no)	1.35 (0.65–2.95)	0.433	0.70 (0.26–1.90)	0.477
Daily use of prescription opioids^a (yes vs. no)	2.11 (0.53–14.07)	0.346	1.38 (0.17–18.75)	0.784
Public injecting^a (yes vs. no)	6.09 (2.69–15.72)	< 0.001	5.61 (1.90–19.12)	0.003
Ever overdosed (yes vs. no)	1.41 (0.73–2.77)	0.314	0.76 (0.32–1.76)	0.522
Unable to access addiction treatment^a (yes vs. no)	3.29 (1.20–11.58)	0.035	3.41 (1.02-14.10)	0.062
Drug or alcohol treatment^a (yes vs. no)	2.00 (1.03–3.91)	0.041	1.71 (0.71–4.19)	0.235

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