Purposive sampling method was used for the sampling from rehabilitation center and harm reduction in the respected places. Inclusion criteria were (1) Youth injecting drug users aged 16 to 34, (2) those who were willing to participate in this study. Exclusion criteria were (1) who were seriously ill diagnosed by doctors. This study was carried out from 5 municipalities in Nepal which included Kathmandu, Biratnagar, Pokhara, Dharan and Damak. Purposive sampling was used to select 5 sites in Nepal followed by quota sampling with proportion to select samples from rehabilitation and harm reduction center with respect to place. Krejcie Morgan formula was used to calculate the sample size. 377 IDUs Participated in this study which include (n=64) participants from Damak, (n=77) participants from Pokhara, (n=75) participants from Kathmandu, (n=81) participants from Dharan and (n=80) participants from Biratnagar. Further (n=136) participants from rehabilitation center and (n=241) participants from harm reduction center. Informed consent prior to the interview was taken. Ethical approval was obtained from the ethical committee of NHRC, Nepal with reg. no. 25/2014. Chi- square was used to test the association between dependent and independent variables.
RESULTS
Socio-demographic Characteristics
The finding represents the social demographic of respondents on the basic of centers and gender. As there were no female respondents in rehabilitation center, hence they were not presented for the Table 1. About 40.4% (n=55) of the total respondents (n=327) were male and 13.26% (n=50) were female. Out of total male respondents (n=136) in rehabilitation center, majority of respondents were from age group 20 to 24. Majority of the male respondents from harm reduction center were from the age group 20-24 similarly from majority of female respondents from harm reduction center