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. 2025 May 9;7:1499481. doi: 10.3389/frph.2025.1499481

Table 2.

Baseline socio-demographic characteristics by the intervention and control groups.

Variables Intervention N = 403 Control N = 388 Total N = 791
Parent level socio-demographics
Age (SD) 37.6 ± 5.7 37.8 ± 5.4 37.7 ± 5.6
Gender
Male 231 (57.3%) 224 (57.7%) 455 (57.5%)
Female 172 (42.7%) 164 (42.3%) 336 (42.5%)
Marital status
Married 303 (75.4%) 301 (77.6%) 604 (76.5%)
Separated/divorced 41 (10.2%) 41 (10.6%) 82 (10.4%)
Widowed 58 (14.4%) 46 (11.9%) 104 (13.2%)
Education completed
Primary school 169 (43.0%) 186 (50.3%) 355 (46.5%)
Middle school 195 (49.6%) 156 (42.2%) 351 (46.0%)
High school and higher 29 (7.4%) 28 (7.6%) 57 (7.5%)
Employment status
Unemployed 97 (24.1%) 58 (15.2%) 155 (19.8%)
Part-time 131 (32.6%) 131 (34.3%) 262 (33.4%)
Full-time 174 (43.3%) 193 (50.5%) 367 (46.8%)
Household's monthly income (CNY)
0–999 20 (57.1%) 199 (51.3%) 429 (54.2%)
1,000–1,999 125 (31.0%) 130 (33.5%) 255 (32.2%)
≥2,000 48 (11.9%) 59 (15.2%) 107 (13.5%)
Clinical-related
Route of infection
Spouse/main partner 144 (35.7%) 135 (34.8%) 279 (35.3%)
Commercial sex 121 (30.0%) 143 (36.9%) 264 (33.4%)
Injecting drug use 58 (14.4%) 49 (12.6%) 107 (13.5%)
Others 80 (19.9%) 61 (15.7%) 141 (17.8%)
CD4 group (copies/ml)
<200 77 (19.5%) 69 (18.8%) 146 (19.1%)
200–349 121 (30.6%) 117 (31.8%) 238 (31.2%)
350–500 99 (25.1%) 98 (26.6%) 197 (25.8%)
≥500 98 (24.8%) 84 (22.8%) 182 (23.9%)
Child-level
Age group
6–9 199 (49.3%) 172 (46.0%) 371 (47.7%)
10–12 110 (27.2%) 86 (23.0%) 196 (25.2%)
13–15 95 (23.5%) 116 (31.0%) 211 (27.1%)
Gender
Male 209 (54.1%) 185 (51.8%) 394 (53.0%)
Female 177 (45.9%) 172 (48.2%) 349 (47.0%)