Table 1.

Baseline Demographics and Health Characteristics of the RAP Sample (percentages except where indicated)^a

	PHAs	CRs	Others		Total Sample
			Untrained PHAs	CRs of untrained PHAs
Total Sample at Baseline	n=112	n=223	n=64	n=124	n=523
Sex: Female **	37.5	22.5	29.7	16.1	25.1
Ethnicity: **
African American	55.4	51.4	32.8	31.5	45.2
Puerto Rican/Other Hispanic	40.2	39.6	48.4	56.5	44.8
Non-Hispanic White/Others	4.5	9.0	18.8	12.1	10.0
Mean age (range 18–67)	M=39.99	M=40.42	M=39.53	M=39.05	M=39.89
Socio-Economic Status:
Less than high school or GED	58.1	48.7	45.3	61.3	53.3
Unemployed	78.6	75.1	82.8	70.7	75.8
Homeless at baseline	48.2	48.6	49.2	52.4	49.5
Health history:
Ever diagnosed with an STI *	45.9	38.6	35.9	26.6	36.9
Has Hepatitis C *	80.9	64.9	91.7	82.1	76.1
Has HIV *	24.0	14.4	17.7	10.6	16.0
Any drug treatment in last 6 m	34.7	30.2	40.6	31.5	32.8

^aSignificance is calculated in differences across four participant types at baseline assessment.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .001