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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2014 Jan;18(1):10.1007/s10461-013-0481-5. doi: 10.1007/s10461-013-0481-5

Table I.

Descriptive Statistics of Study Variables (N = 194)

Mean SD N %
Age 20.66 1.71
Race/Ethnicity
 Black 76 39.2
 Hispanic 34 17.5
 White 50 25.8
 Other Race 34 17.5
Educationa
 Not completed HS 10 5.2
 Completed HS/GED 183 94.8
Sexual Identityb
 Gay 163 84.5
 Bisexual 26 13.5
 Heterosexual 7 3.6
Transgenderc 14 7.3
Relationship Status
 Single 133 68.6
 In a Relationship 61 31.4
Lifetime HIV Testing
 Tested 129 66.5
  Number of tests 4.14 3.58
 Never Tested 65 33.5
HIV Status
 HIV+ 15 7.7
 HIV− 114 58.8
 HIV Unknown 65 33.5
Serodiscordance
 Serodiscordant URAI 25 12.9%
Self-Efficacyd
 Regular Partnere 11.59 6.20
 Casual Partnerf 12.41 5.97
 Low SE w/Reg Partner, Low SE w/Cas Partner 57 29.4
 Low SE w/Reg Partner, High SE w/Cas Partner 21 10.8
 High SE w/Reg Partner, Low SE w/Cas Partner 24 12.4
 High SE w/Reg Partner, High SE w/Cas Partner 73 37.6
Sexual Behavior (past 2 months)f
 Total number of male partners 1.72 2.26
 URAI partners 0.43 0.87
 Engaged in URAI 54 27.8

Notes. HRHC = High Self-Efficacy with Regular and Casual Partners; HRLC = High Self-Efficacy with Regular Partners and Low Self-Efficacy with Casual Partners; LRHC = Low Self-Efficacy with Regular Partners and High Self-Efficacy with Casual Partners; LRLC = Low Self-Efficacy with Regular and Casual Partners

a

One participant had missing data on education

b

One participant had missing data on sexual identity

c

Two participants had missing data on transgender identity

d

Higher scores reflect less confidence in negotiating safer sex

e

14 participants had missing/incomplete data on self-efficacy with regular partners

f

16 participants had missing/incomplete data on self-efficacy with casual partners

f

Variables presented in original metric for descriptive purposes. Given their skewed distributions, we used each variable’s log10 transformation in analysis