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

Table 3 Drug use status and MMT treatment duration of participants

Characteristics	Completely adherence		Incompletely adherence		Total		p-value
Characteristics	n	%	n	%	n	%	p-value
Ever injected drugs
Yes	98	57.3	154	68.7	252	63.8	0.02*
No	73	42.7	70	31.3	143	36.2
Concurrent illicit drug use
Yes	1	0.6	22	9.8	23	5.8	< 0.01*
No	170	99.4	202	90.2	372	94.2
Quality of life since MMT onset
Better	164	95.9	213	95.1	377	95.4	0.70*
Unchanged	7	4.1	11	4.9	18	4.6
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p-value
Age of onset of drug use	26.5	8.1	25.5	7.6	25.9	7.8	0.25^#
MMT duration (year)	3.2	2.2	3.3	2.2	3.3	2.2	0.38^#
MMT dose (mg)	72.9	43.7	66.4	30.7	69.2	37.0	0.29^#

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