Table 1.

Baseline characteristics of the sample (N=259)

	Median (interquartile range) or No. (%)
Age, years	34 (28–40)
Time since diagnosis (years)	0.7 (0.3–1.8)
Women	173 (67%)
Achieved secondary education or more	56 (22%)
Married	112 (43%)
Household asset wealth *	−0.6 (−1.5 to 1.1)
Positive screen for hazardous drinking †	32 (12%)
Physical health summary score ‡	45 (35–53)
Mental health summary score ¶	43 (35–51)
HIV-related symptom index §	0.3 (−0.1 to 0.8)

^*Derived from principal components analysis applied to a series of 25 binary variables for household-owned assets and housing characteristics (61)

^†Positive screen on the three-item consumption subset of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (60)

^‡Physical health summary score of the Medical Outcomes Study-HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV) (51)

^¶Mental health summary score of the MOS-HIV

^§Derived from equally weighted responses to questions about 29 potentially HIV-related symptoms (50)