Treatment adherence amongst drug users attending public and private methadone maintenance clinics in a northern province of Vietnam

Table 1 Demographic and substance use characteristics of participants

Characteristics	Completely adherence		Incompletely adherence		Total		p-value
Characteristics	n	%	n	%	n	%	p-value
Age group
Under 30	10	5.9	38	17.0	48	12.2	0.01*
30–40	77	45.0	92	41.1	169	42.8
41–50	61	35.7	65	29.0	126	31.9
Above 50	23	13.5	29	13.0	52	13.2
Education
Less than secondary	30	17.5	36	16.1	66	16.7	0.38*
Secondary school	107	62.6	130	58.0	237	60.0
More than secondary	34	19.9	58	25.9	92	23.3
Marital status
Single	20	11.7	47	21.0	67	17.0	0.05*
Living with partners/ spouses	141	82.5	163	72.8	304	77.0
Divorced/widow	10	5.9	14	6.3	24	6.1
Employment
Unemployment	10	5.9	23	10.3	33	8.4	0.01*
Freelancer	49	28.7	90	40.2	139	35.2
Blue collar worker/farmer	45	26.3	47	21.0	92	23.3
Self-employed	11	6.4	17	7.6	28	7.1
Others	56	32.8	47	21.0	103	26.1
Quintile monthly family income
First	35	20.5	45	20.1	80	20.3	0.65*
Second	37	21.6	45	20.1	82	20.8
Third	29	17.0	52	23.2	81	20.5
Fourth	38	22.2	44	19.6	82	20.8
Fifth	32	18.7	38	17.0	70	17.7
Alcohol drinking	88	51.5	123	54.9	211	53.4	0.50*
Smoking	139	81.3	181	80.8	320	81.0	0.90*
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p-value
Average family income (USD)	375.9	246.7	472.1	679.5	430.5	538.4	0.92^#

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