Table 1.
Descriptives for Demographic and Background Medical Variables
| Gender | |
| Male | 64% |
| Female | 36% |
| Age | |
| M | 38.00 |
| SD | 8.13 |
| Ethnicity | |
| Non-Hispanic white | 29.3% |
| African American | 38.4% |
| Hispanic white | 27.3% |
| Other | 5.1% |
| Education | |
| Some high school or less | 22% |
| High school graduation | 18% |
| Trade school/some college | 34% |
| College graduation | 19% |
| Graduation degree | 7% |
| Employment | |
| Full time | 13.1% |
| Part time | 19.2% |
| Unemployed | 17.2% |
| Disability | 41.4% |
| Other | 9.1% |
| Income | |
| Less than $10,000/y | 71% |
| $10,000 to $20,000/y | 15.2% |
| Greater than $20,000/y | 14.2% |
| Immune measures | |
| CD4 # | |
| M | 291.38 |
| SD | 96.53 |
| Viral load | |
| M | 48,350 |
| SD | 126,678 |
| Antiretroviral medication | |
| None | 20.3% |
| Combination therapy (non-HAART) | 16.5% |
| HAART | 63.2% |
| Medication adherence (average percentage of missed doses in past 3 d) | |
| M | 0.12 |
| SD | 0.25 |
| Route of infection | |
| Gay/bisexual sex | 46.5% |
| Heterosexual sex | 47.5% |
| IV drug use | 4.0% |
| Other | 2.0% |
| Time since diagnosis (mo) | |
| M | 88.26 |
| SD | 49.92 |
| Sexual orientation | |
| Homosexual/bisexual | 51.5% |
| Heterosexual | 48.5% |
HAART, highly active antiretroviral therapy.
n=99 for variables with decimal points.