Table 3.

Sex behaviors, HIV treatment optimism, and infectiousness beliefs among participants who had not been and who had been diagnosed with a recent STI and their viral load.

	Not diagnosed with recent STI						Diagnosed with recent STI
	Knowledge of most recent Viral Load						Knowledge of most recent Viral Load
	Detectable		Undetectable		Don’t Know		Detectable		Undetectable		Don’t Know
	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	M	SD	F
All partners
Number of partners	1.6	2.8	1.2	1.8	1.3	1.8	2.6	2.9	2.2	4.4	1.8	2.1	7.5b**
Unprotected intercourse	2.5	9.2	1.8	6.4	1.6	4.6	1.5	3.8	1.0	2.2	3.6	7.7	ns
Protected intercourse	2.8	8.6	4.1	15.3	3.1	11.0	9.2	18.7	3.5	5.0	3.7	8.3	9.2b**
Total intercourse	5.4	16.1	5.9	16.5	4.7	12.1	10.7	20.3	4.6	6.7	7.4	15.6	4.5b*
Non-HIV positive partners
Number of partners	0.5	1.4	0.5	1.0	0.6	1.3	1.6	2.6	0.6	1.5	0.7	1.4	3.7b*
Unprotected intercourse	0.3	1.8	1.0	5.6	0.6	2.5	0.8	2.1	0.1	0.5	0.5	1.5	ns
Protected intercourse	0.8	2.5	2.1	9.9	1.8	10.7	6.9	18.3	0.7	1.9	0.4	1.1	5.1a**	6.3c**
Total intercourse	1.1	3.2	3.1	11.4	2.5	11.3	7.7	19.6	0.9	2.2	0.9	2.6	3.1a*	5.1c**
Treatment optimism	3.4	1.0	3.5	1.1	3.3	1.2	3.5	1.1	3.6	1.3	3.3	1.3	ns
Infectivity beliefs	0.6	1.0	0.8	1.0	0.9	1.1	0.9	1.6	1.2	1.4	1.4	1.3	7.4b**

Note:

^amain effect for viral load, F (2,480);

^bmain effect for STI, F (1,480);

^cviral load x STI interaction, F (2,480);

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01