Table 5.

Correlates of agreement with HIV/AIDS “Conspiracy” Theories: Results of Stepwise Polychotomous Logistic Regression Analyses

Correlates	Adjusted Odds Ratio	95% Confidence Interval	p value*
Study at Tuskegee Awareness (yes)	3.29	(2.28,4.76)	.001
Ethnic background (African American)	2.63	(1.91,3.63)	.001
HIV/AIDS knowledge (greater)	.92	(.85,97)	.002
Income (higher)	.89	(.80,1.00)	.04

Note. Goodness-of-Fit Π² test for the final stepwise polychotomous logistic regression model was 1786.19 (df = 2180, p = 1.00). The Score Π² test for proportional odds assumption was 6.83 (df = 8, p =0.55).

^*p value of the improvement Π² at each step.