Table 1.
All respondents (N = 371) | Receiving HAART (N = 268) | Awaiting HAART (N = 103) | P-value* | |
Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | Median (IQR) | ||
Age | 37 (31–43) | 37 (32–44) | 36 (31–41) | 0.17 |
Personal income (ZAR per month)** | 740 (0–740) | 740 (0–780) | 740 (0–740) | 0.005 |
n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | ||
Female | 243 (65) | 176 (66) | 67 (65) | 0.88 |
Education ≤ grade 10 | 249 (67) | 180 (67) | 69 (67) | 0.98 |
Health insurance | 11 (3) | 8 (3) | 3 (3) | 0.98 |
Employed | 54 (15) | 45 (17) | 9 (9) | 0.008 |
Receiving welfare grant | 182 (49) | 132 (49) | 51 (50) | 0.96 |
≤ 4 rooms in home | 273 (74) | 186 (69) | 87 (84) | 0.017 |
Smoked past 30 days | 41 (11) | 26 (10) | 15 (15) | 0.29 |
Drank alcohol past 30 days** | 18 (5) | 11 (4) | 7 (7) | 0.33 |
Has physical caregiver | 131 (35) | 90 (34) | 41 (40) | 0.46 |
Has emotional caregiver | 178 (48) | 123 (46) | 55 (53) | 0.21 |
Has treatment buddy | 166 (45) | 136 (51) | 30 (29) | 0.007 |
Previous antiretroviral treatment | 25 (7) | 24 (9) | 1 (1) | 0.006 |
Hospitalized since entering HAART program | 37 (10) | 25 (9) | 12 (12) | 0.62 |
*Simple logistic regression adjusted for intraclinic clustering of outcomes
** 1 missing value