Table 1.
Participant Descriptive Characteristics
| Heterosexual | Heterosexual | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full Sample N = 341 N (%) |
MSM N = 138 N (%) |
Men N = 87 N (%) |
Women N = 116 N (%) |
|
| Demographics | ||||
| Age [M (SD)] | 42.2 (9.0) | 40.0 (9.5) | 44.9 (7.9) | 42.8 (8.5) |
| Race | ||||
| African-American | 238 (70.0) | 78 (56.9) | 70 (80.5) | 90 (77.6) |
| White | 72 (21.2) | 47 (34.3) | 9 (10.3) | 16 (13.8) |
| Other | 30 (8.8) | 12 (8.8) | 8 (9.2) | 10 (8.6) |
| Education | ||||
| High School or Less | 187 (55.0) | 41 (29.7) | 69 (79.3) | 77 (67.0) |
| Some College or More | 153 (45.0) | 97 (70.3) | 18 (20.7) | 38 (33.0) |
| Employment | ||||
| Not Employed | 212 (62.2) | 75 (54.4) | 60 (69.0) | 77 (66.4) |
| Full or Part-Time | 129 (37.8) | 63 (45.6) | 27 (31.0) | 39 (33.6) |
| Annual income | ||||
| $10,000 or less | 169 (51.7) | 58 (42.7) | 51 (63.8) | 60 (54.1) |
| $10,001 to $20,000 | 83 (25.4) | 39 (28.7) | 19 (23.8) | 25 (22.5) |
| >$20,001 | 75 (22.9) | 39 (28.7) | 10 (12.5) | 26 (23.4) |
| Clinical Characteristics | ||||
| Detectable Viral Load | 128 (37.7) | 57 (41.3) | 28 (32.6) | 43 (37.1) |
| Yrs since Diagnosis [M (SD)] | 9.7 (6.0) | 9.3 (6.5) | 10.8 (5.8) | 9.1 (5.5) |
Note: All participants came from SafeTalk, a safer sex intervention among adults in the southeastern U.S. (Golin et al., 2012). MSM= men who have sex with men. When men indicated they had had sexual contact with both men and women in the previous three months, they were categorized as MSM (n=5).