Table 4.
Hazards of failure to complete all pages of an online HIV behavioral risk survey, by gender of sexual partners of participants in the past 12 months in the United States in 2009
| Male Partners Only | Male and Female Partners | ||
| Characteristics of Participants | Hazard Ratio (95% CI) | Hazard Ratio (95% CI) | |
| Race | |||
| Whitea (referent) | |||
| Blacka | 1.6 (1.4-1.8)b | 1.3 (1.0-1.8) | |
| Hispanic | 1.3 (1.1-1.4) | 1.5 (1.2-1.9) | |
| Othera | 1.3 (1.1-1.5) | 1.0 (0.8-1.5) | |
| Age(years) | |||
| 18-24 (referent) | |||
| 25-29 | 1.0 (0.9-1.1) | 1.0 (0.8-1.3) | |
| 30-34 | 0.9 (0.8-1.1) | 0.7 (0.4-1.1) | |
| 35-45 | 0.8 (0.7-1.0) | 0.8 (0.5-1.2) | |
| > 45 | 0.8 (0.6-1.1) | 1.0 (0.5-2.2) | |
| Sexual identity | |||
| Homosexual or gay (referent) | |||
| Bisexual | 1.0 (0.8-1.1) | 0.8 (0.6-1.1) | |
| Heterosexual or straight | 2.1 (1.1-3.7) | 0.8 (0.4-1.4) | |
| Otherc | 0.9 (0.5-1.5) | 0.6 (0.3-1.1) | |
| Education | |||
| College/postgraduate | 0.8 (0.7-0.9) | 0.9 (0.7-1.3) | |
| Some college/associate degree | 0.8 (0.7-0.9) | 1.0 (0.8-1.3) | |
| High school or GED (referent) | |||
| Less than high school | 1.0 (0.8-1.2) | 1.3 (0.9-1.9) | |
| Urban versus rurald | |||
| Rural | 0.9 (0.8-1.0) | 1.2 (1.0-1.5) | |
| Urban (referent) | |||
a non-Hispanic
b Results presented in italics denote significance at P < .05.
c Participants could write in a text response for “Orientation”; most frequent responses were “queer,”“curious,” and “questioning.”
d The categorization of rural versus urban was based on population density (per square mile) of the participants’ zip codes; participants who lived in a zip code with a population density of < 1000 persons per square mile were considered to live in rural areas.