. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2012 Aug 22;24(11):1453–1460. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2012.712665

Table 1.

Baseline Characteristics of the CHASE Participants

	Overall

	N=611
Age, years (range 20–71)	40.1
Female gender	191 (31.3%)
Race/ethnicity
Caucasian non-Latino	189 (31.6%)
African American non-Latino	383 (64.0%)
Other^*	26 (4.4%)
Education beyond high school	278 (%)
Men who don’t have sex with men	134(%)
Men who have sex with men	272()
Mode of HIV acquisition
Homosexual sex	219(35.9%)
Heterosexual sex	261(42.8%)
Injection drug use	40(6.6%)
Other^†	25(4.1%)
Unknown	65(10.7%)
CD4 <200 cells/mm³	117 (22.7%)
VL <400 copies/mL	237 (46.1%)
Probable psychiatric disorder (BSI)	329 (53.9%)
Substance use, past 9 months
Drinking to intoxication weekly	40 (6.9%)
Any non-marijuana drug use	136 (22.3%)
Crack use	67 (11.1%)

Includes Latino (2.7%), Asian (0.5%), Native American (1.2%)

^†

Other modes of transmission were reported by 25 (4.1%) participants and 65 (10.7%) had an unknown mode of transmission.