Table I.
Characteristics of People Living with HIV/AIDS in a Peer-Driven Intervention to Increase Participation in AIDS Clinical Trial Screening (N=351)
| % or Mean (SD) | |
|---|---|
| Sociodemographic characteristics | |
| Female | 44.2 |
| Age in years | 49.4 (7.4) |
| African American | 65.8 |
| Hispanic | 24.8 |
| Heterosexual | 70.7 |
| Gay | 15.9 |
| Lesbian | 3.4 |
| Bisexual or Other | 10.0 |
| Brooklyn | 31.6 |
| Bronx | 31.1 |
| Manhattan | 25.9 |
| Frequency of Racial Discrimination (0–3) | 0.50 (0.61) |
| Health characteristicsa | |
| Health Literacy (REALM; 0–1) | 0.77 (0.25) |
| Current ART | 66.2 |
| Past ART | 8.6 |
| Never took ART | 25.2 |
| CD4+ count | 520 (607) |
| Undetectable Viral Load | 64.5 |
| HIV Diagnosis Year | 1994 (5.8) |
| Prior ACT Screening | 23.1 |
| Poor General Health | 2.6 |
| Fair General Health | 24.9 |
| Good General Health | 28.6 |
| Very Good General Health | 26.3 |
| Excellent General Health | 17.7 |
| BSI Global Severity Index (0–4) | 0.49 (0.49) |
| Substance use | |
| Ever Injected Drugs | 29.3 |
| Current Inject Drugs | 2.6 |
| Alcohol Frequency Past 3 Months (0–8) | 1.47 (1.88) |
| Drug Use Frequency Past 3 Months (0–8) | 1.48 (2.14) |
| Intervention dose | |
| All Sessions Attended | 88.3 |
| Number of Peers Recruited/Educated (0–3) | 1.03 (1.09) |
a
One participant was missing the general health self-rating; two were missing ART status; fourteen were missing CD4; nineteen were missing viral load; sixteen were missing year of HIV diagnosis. A total of forty participants (11.4%) were missing one or more of these variables.