From: Hunger and associated harms among injection drug users in an urban Canadian setting
Variable | Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) | 95% Confidence Interval (95% CI) | Wald Chi-Square†, ‡ | p - value |
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Age (per year increase) | 0.994 | (0.98 - 1.01) | 0.65 | 0.420 |
DTES residency (yes vs no) | 1.34 | (0.96 - 1.89) | 2.89 | 0.089 |
Unstable housing (yes vs no) | 1.68 | (1.20 - 2.36) | 9.04 | 0.003 |
Money spent on drugs per day (≥ $50 vs < $50) | 1.43 | (1.06 - 1.91) | 5.64 | 0.018 |
Incarceration ** (yes vs no) | 1.16 | (0.79 - 1.69) | 0.57 | 0.451 |
Symptoms of Depression* (≥ 16 CES-D vs < 16 CES-D) | 3.32 | (2.45 - 4.48) | 62.79 | < 0.001 |
Daily injection heroin ** (yes vs no) | 1.27 | (0.92 - 1.75) | 2.05 | 0.152 |
Daily non-injection crack/rock ** (yes vs no) | 1.18 | (0.86 - 1.61) | 1.02 | 0.313 |
Any injection or non-injection drug binge ** (yes vs no) | 1.15 | (0.86 - 1.53) | 0.90 | 0.342 |