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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2005 Dec 20.
Published in final edited form as: J Public Health Manag Pract. 2005;11(6):516–521. doi: 10.1097/00124784-200511000-00007

Table 1.

Comparison of Patients Assigned to the Incentive and No-Incentive Conditions on Sociodemographic and Sexual Risk Variables

Incentive (n = 52)
No-Incentive (n = 55)
Characteristic M SD M SD
Age (years) 26.6 7.2 27.4 8.2
# of children 1.3 1.6 1.2 1.4
# of partners last 3 months 2.8 2.3 4.1 6.9
Attitudes towards groups 5.1 0.6 5.0 0.7
n % n %
Gender (female) 23 44 26 47
Race/Ethnicity
 Caucasian 14 27 12 22
 African American/Black 35 67 39 71
 Other 3 6 4 7
Education
 < high school 10 19 11 20
 high school graduate 19 37 21 38
 some college 18 35 16 29
 college graduate 5 10 7 13
Employed 27 52 30 55
Income < $15,000/year 26 50 28 51
Married 2 4 1 2