TABLE 2.
Variables | Gender
|
Race
|
Age
|
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Female | Male | F/χ2 | White | Black/other | F/χ2 | Under 31 | 31–40 | Over 41 | F/χ2 | |
HIV knowledge | 65.05 | 64.61 | 0.52 | 65.03 | 64.32 | 0.12 | 62.52a | 68.77b | 64.44a,b | 3.85* |
Condom barriers | 61.36 | 69.08 | 6.73** | 67.66 | 61.86 | 3.37 | 68.83 | 61.94 | 64.32 | 2.07 |
Transactional sex (lifetime) | 41.2% | 22.0% | 9.55** | 24.7% | 41.9% | 6.78** | 18.1% | 35.4% | 48.1% | 16.33*** |
Behaviors in past 3 months | ||||||||||
Sexually active | 83.5% | 86.6% | 0.42 | 83.3% | 89.2% | 1.35 | 93.3% | 78.5% | 77.8% | 10.25** |
Number of partners | 1.27 | 1.92 | 7.97** | 1.54 | 1.83 | 1.43 | 1.61 | 1.78 | 1.55 | 0.29 |
Multiple partners | 19.0% | 33.6% | 5.34* | 24.4% | 32.9% | 1.64 | 32.0% | 26.9% | 18.8% | 2.99 |
Total sexual occasions | 23.76 | 26.10 | 0.48 | 28.43 | 18.82 | 7.88** | 28.19b | 25.16a,b | 17.86a | 3.06* |
Transactional sex | 10.1% | 10.2% | 0.01 | 6.5% | 17.5% | 5.22* | 6.3% | 15.7% | 12.5% | 3.55 |
Condom use last sex act | 21.0% | 16.4% | 0.66 | 15.2% | 24.2% | 2.29 | 22.4% | 9.8% | 19.0% | 3.94 |
Condom use | 1.55 | 6.34* | 16.44** | |||||||
Always | 14.9% | 11.9% | 12.4% | 14.5% | 12.4% | 4.1% | 22.7% | |||
Sometimes | 18.9% | 26.6% | 18.2% | 33.9% | 29.2% | 28.6% | 6.8% | |||
Never | 66.2% | 61.5% | 69.4% | 51.6% | 58.4% | 67.3% | 70.5% | |||
Frequency of unprotected sex occasions | 21.62 | 21.95 | 0.01 | 25.15 | 14.92 | 9.74** | 24.19b | 23.33b | 14.43a | 2.94 |
Note. Duncan post hoc tests were conducted when mean differences were observed for age groups and are indicated by the superscript letters.
p < .05.
p < .01.
p < .001.