Table 1.
Baseline characteristics of men participating in the intervention workshops and men completing community-level venue surveys
| Characteristic | Men participating in workshops |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alcohol–HIV intervention |
Control condition |
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| (n = 497) |
(n = 478) |
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| M | SD | M | SD | t | |
| Age | 29.8 | 8.7 | 30.5 | 9.1 | 1.1 |
| Educationa | 2.4 | 0.6 | 2.3 | 0.6 | 2.7** |
| Alcohol frequency | 4.2 | 1.7 | 4.2 | 1.7 | 0.5 |
| Alcohol intoxication | 2.9 | 1.8 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 0.9 |
| Heavy drinking episodes | 3.9 | 1.8 | 3.8 | 1.8 | 1 |
| N | % | n | % | X2 | |
| Employed | 17 | 3 | 22 | 4 | 0.9 |
| Married | 35 | 7 | 40 | 8 | 0.3 |
| Ethnicity black African | 488 | 98 | 469 | 98 | 0.2 |
| Ever diagnosed with STI | 158 | 31 | 135 | 28 | 1.4 |
| Ever tested for HIV | 314 | 63 | 303 | 63 | 0.1 |
| Tested HIV positive | 26 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 0.8 |
| Men surveyed in and around shebeensb |
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| (n = 3155) |
(n = 3006) |
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| M | SD | M | SD | t | |
| Age | 32.5 | 9.7 | 32 | 9.5 | 2.0* |
| Education | 2.5 | 0.7 | 2.6 | 0.7 | 2.7** |
| Alcohol frequency | 3.7 | 2 | 3.7 | 1.9 | 0.3 |
| Alcohol intoxication | 2 | 1.5 | 2 | 1.5 | 0.4 |
| Heavy drinking episodes | 2.9 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 4.8** |
| N | % | n | % | X2 | |
| Employed | 1628 | 51 | 1574 | 52 | 0.32 |
| Married | 793 | 25 | 674 | 22 | 6.3* |
| Ethnicity Black African | 3128 | 99 | 2963 | 98 | 4.6* |
| Ever diagnosed with STI | 2047 | 44 | 1900 | 42 | 6.0** |
| Ever tested for HIV | 3207 | 70 | 3219 | 71 | 1.8 |
| Tested HIV positive | 251 | 5 | 251 | 5 | 0.1 |
aEducation assessed on scale: 1 = No schooling, 2 = grades 1 through 11 completed, 3 = matriculated, 4 = college.
bMen in workshops excluded.
*P < .05, **P < .01.