Perceived need for substance use treatment among young women from disadvantaged communities in Cape Town, South Africa

Table 3 Adjusted associations between predisposing, enabling and health need variables and perceived need for treatment among young substance-using women in Cape Town, South Africa; stratified by methamphetamine use

	Methamphetamine positive			Methamphetamine negative
	N = 445			N = 274
Covariates	AOR^a	95% CI^b	p	AOR	95% CI	p
*Predisposing variables*
Age	1.00	0.96-1.05	0.873	0.93	0.87-1.01	0.058
Ethnicity (Black African)	1.48	0.89-2.46	0.131	1.96	0.90-4.29	0.091
Education (Not completed high school)	0.87	0.46-1.67	0.681	0.98	0.41-2.31	0.959
*Enabling variables*
Relationship status (Reference married)
Boyfriend	1.32	0.84-2.07	0.224	0.48	0.19-1.20	0.116
Single	1.36	0.57-3.26	0.486	0.30	0.03-2.67	0.282
Income in the last 30 days	0.98	0.94-1.02	0.378	0.95	0.79-0.96	0.039
Family with drug problems (No)	0.66	0.43-1.01	0.056	0.79	0.45-1.39	0.407
Prior treatment (No)	0.72	0.37-1.34	0.328	1.97	0.34-11.27	0.448
Awareness of treatment (Yes)	0.98	0.65-1.48	0.924	1.84	1.03-3.27	0.039
*Health need variables*
CES-D	1.28	0.92-1.15	0.626	1.14	0.99-1.33	0.079
TCU anxiety	1.08	0.86-1.34	0.517	1.41	1.06-1.87	0.020
Physical health (poor)	1.07	0.62-1.85	0.812	6.29	1.56-25.64	0.010

^aAOR = adjusted odds ratio. All predisposing, enabling and health need variables were entered into the multiple logistic regression models.
^b95% CI = 95% confidence intervals.

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