TABLE 3.
Characteristics of Patients in the 40 Study Units
| Patients (N = 621) |
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|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Percent | No. |
| Sex | ||
| Male | 88.1 | 546 |
| Female | 11.9 | 74 |
| Race | ||
| White | 52.5 | 321 |
| Black | 29.7 | 182 |
| Hispanic | 16.0 | 98 |
| Other | 1.8 | 11 |
| HIV risk category | ||
| Homosexual sex | 68.6 | 426 |
| High-risk heterosexual sex | 13.8 | 86 |
| Intravenous drug use | 28.2 | 170 |
| Global activities of daily living (ADL) | ||
| Self-care | 56.7 | 327 |
| Some assistance | 27.9 | 161 |
| Considerable assistance | 11.8 | 68 |
| Total assistance | 3.6 | 21 |
| Clinical AIDS Prognostic Staging (CAPS) | ||
| Stage 1 | 25.0 | 155 |
| Stage 2 | 33.7 | 209 |
| Stage 3 | 24.8 | 154 |
| Stage 4 | 16.6 | 103 |
| Mean |
Standard
Deviation |
|
|
| ||
| Age | 37.4 | 7.5 |
| Satisfaction with nursing care | 62.9 | 8.8 |
Notes: The sum across categories for some characteristics is less than the sum of all patients owing to small amounts of missing data. The sum of patient HIV risk categories exceeds the sum of all patients because the categories are not mutually exclusive. Global ADL and CAPS are indicators of illness severity and are described in the text.