Table 2.
Baseline Characteristics of CHAMP Participants (n=40)
| Demographic characteristics | |
| Female | 35% |
| African American | 80% |
| Caucasian | 20% |
| Age | |
| Under 30 | 10% |
| 30–39 | 28% |
| 40–49 | 40% |
| 50–60 | 22% |
| Less than high school education | 28% |
| Identify as MSM | 33% |
| Illicit substance use in the last 4 months | 35% |
| Alcohol intoxication in last 30 days | 15% |
| Disabled | 28% |
| Unstable housing sometime in last 4 monthsa | 35% |
| Insurance | |
| Medicaid primary | 22% |
| Medicare | 23% |
| No insurance | 55% |
| Probable mental disorders | |
| Bipolar | 30% |
| Depression | 55% |
| Anxiety | 33% |
| PTSD | 38% |
| Trauma | |
| Ever seen someone seriously injured/killed | 60% |
| Had spouse/partner or child die | 50% |
| Sexual abuse | 45% |
| Physical abuse (with or without weapon) | 68% |
| On HIV medications | 85% |
| On psychotropic medications | 40% |
| Social support | |
| Someone to listen when you need to talkb | 43% |
| Someone to help you if you were confined to bedb | 59% |
| Stigma | |
| “Feel I'm not as good a person as others because I have HIV”c | 35% |
| “People I know believe that someone with HIV is dirty”c | 64% |
a
Defined as having been in a shelter, temporarily doubled up in someone else's home, on the street, or in emergency/transitional housing for at least one night in the last 4 months.
b
Response category was “most or all the time.”
c
Response category was “Agree” or “Strongly Agree.”
CHAMP, Collaborative HIV/AIDS Mental Health Program; MSM, men who have sex with men; PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder.