Table 3.

Ranked Influence of a Unit Increase in Competing Needs During the Past 3 Months on the Overall Physical Health (Score, 0–100)^a of HIV-positive Homeless and Unstably Housed Women Living in San Francisco, California, 2002–2008 (n = 129)^b

Main Effect	Crude Population Effect	Crude 95% CI	Adjusted Population Effect	Adjusted 95% CI	tVIM Rank	P Value
Crack use	−3.89	−6.63, −1.08	−3.62	−5.89, −0.94	1	0.052
Any drug use	−3.59	−6.15, −0.88	−3.1	−5.5, −0.6	2	0.013
Unmet subsistence needs	−3.02	−5.31, −0.8	−2.91	−5.33, −0.61	3	0.016

Abbreviations: CI, confidence interval; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; SF-36, Short Form 36; tVIM, targeted variable importance.

^aSF-36 physical health composite score in which a higher score indicates better health.

^bEach row represents a separate model in which a single main linear effect is estimated, adjusting for the potential confounding of all other significant study variables.