TABLE 4.

Self-Efficacy, Attitudes, and Intentions Relating to Partner Notification Among Black West Indian Immigrants and US-Born Blacks Attending Sexually Transmitted Infection (STI) Clinics: New York City, January 2002–December 2004

	Women		Men		Overall Ethnicity, ORb (95% CI)	Interaction P	Ethnicityc
	No. (%)	Pa	No. (%)	Pa			Women, OR (95% CI)	Men, OR (95% CI)
Regular partnersd
Extremely confident in ability to discuss STI screening with partners		.17		.04		.02
Black West Indians	92 (73.0)		105 (82.7)				Reference	Reference
US-born Blacks	73 (81.1)		111 (72.1)				1.59 (0.82, 3.07)	0.54 (0.30, 0.97)
Extremely confident in ability to convince partners to undergo		.04		.71		.10
STI screening
Black West Indians	80 (63.5)		110 (86.6)				Reference	Reference
US-born Blacks	69 (76.7)		131 (85.1)				1.89 (1.03, 3.47)	0.88 (0.45, 1.73)
Extremely favorable toward discussing STI screening with partners		.15		.16		.05
Black West Indians	90 (71.4)		111 (87.4)				Reference	Reference
US-born Blacks	72 (80.0)		125 (81.2)				1.60 (0.84, 3.05)	0.62 (0.32, 1.20)
Extremely likely to notify partners to undergo STI screening		.05		.55		.35
Black West Indians	94 (74.6)		110 (86.6)		Reference
US-born Blacks	77 (85.6)		137 (89.0)		1.60 (0.97, 2.63)
Casual partnerse
Extremely confident in ability to discuss STI screening with partners		.28		.84		.36
Black West Indians	16 (59.3)		45 (68.2)		Reference
US-born Blacks	13 (44.8)		76 (66.7)		0.79 (0.45, 1.38)
Extremely confident in ability to convince partners to undergo		.06		.61		.21
STI screening
Black West Indians	16 (59.3)		49 (74.2)		Reference
US-born Blacks	10 (34.5)		80 (70.2)		0.62 (0.35, 1.12)
Extremely favorable toward discussing STI screening with partners		.001		.88		.01
Black West Indians	20 (74.1)		47 (71.2)				Reference	Reference
US-born Blacks	9 (31.0)		80 (70.2)				0.12 (0.03, 0.42)	0.95 (0.48, 1.86)
Extremely likely to notify partners to undergo STI screening		.26		.40		.12
Black West Indians	18 (66.7)		51 (77.3)		Reference
US-born Blacks	15 (51.7)		94 (82.5)		0.99 (0.53, 1.86)
One-time partnersf
Extremely confident in ability to discuss STI screening with partners		.65		.18		.82
Black West Indians	7 (58.3)		35 (74.5)		Reference
US-born Blacks	9 (50.0)		53 (63.1)		0.61 (0.31, 1.23)
Extremely confident in ability to convince partners to undergo		.46		.004		.64
STI screening
Black West Indians	7 (58.3)		38 (80.9)		Reference
US-born Blacks	7 (38.9)		47 (56.0)		0.33 (0.16. 0.69)
Extremely favorable toward discussing STI screening with partners		.46		.05		.88
Black West Indians	6 (50.0)		37 (78.7)		Reference
US-born Blacks	6 (33.3)		52 (61.9)		0.45 (0.22, 0.93)
Extremely likely to notify partners to undergo STI screening		.71		.30		.26
Black West Indians	6 (50.0)		38 (80.9)		Reference
US-born Blacks	11 (61.1)		60 (71.4)		0.76 (0.36, 1.57)

Note. OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval. Sample sizes (listed in footnotes c–e) reflect the numbers of participants responding to items on regular, casual, and 1-time partners and vary slightly from those reporting regular, casual, or 1-time partners (Table 2).

^aBetween-group comparison (χ²).

^bOdds of being extremely confident, favorable, or likely versus not confident, favorable, or likely in comparisons of US-born Blacks (coded 1) and Black West Indians (coded 0) after we controlled for gender and, in casual partner models only, length of relationship. Each row represents a separate model. Estimates are not shown in cases of a significant interaction.

^cORs (with control for length of relationship in casual partner models) are shown when the interaction between gender, ethnicity, and the outcome measure was significant at P ≤ .10.

^dSample sizes were as follows: 90 US-born Black women, 126 Black West Indian women, 154 US-born Black men, 127 Black West Indian men.

^eSample sizes were as follows: 29 US-born Black women, 27 Black West Indian women, 114 US-born Black men, 66 Black West Indian men.

^fSample sizes were as follows: 18 US-born Black women, 12 Black West Indian women, 84 US-born Black men, 47 Black West Indian men.