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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pain Med. 2014 Aug 19;15(10):1724–1733. doi: 10.1111/pme.12533

Table 1.

Comparison Individuals in the HIV/chronic pain clinic with aberrant drug related behaviors and the HIV/chronic pain clinic overall

Variable* With aberrant
behaviors (N=37)
Without
aberrant
behaviors
(N=100)
p-value

Age (median, IQR) 44 (37-49) 44 (39-
50)
0.66

Non-white race 18 (49%) 45 (45%) 0.85

Female 15 (41%) 25 (25%) 0.09

Transmission Risk Factor 0.04**
-Heterosexual 19 (51%) 32 (32%)
-Intravenous drug use 10 (27%) 22 (22%)
-Men who have sex with 8 (22%) 45 (45%)
men 0 (0%) 1 (1%)
-Other/unknown

Insurance 0.80
-Private 4 (11%) 16 (16%)
-Public 23 (62%) 57 (57%)
-None 10 (27%) 27 (27%)

CD4 (median, IQR) 327 (177-620) 386 (226-
662)
0.60

Viral loadundetectable 21 (57%) 54 (55%) 0.85

Pain (EuroQOL
moderate/severe)
24 (80%) 72 (77%) 1.0

Functional impairment
(EuroQOL,
somewhat/unable to
perform)
17 (55%) 41 (44%)
-mobility 2 (7%) 12 (13%) 0.31
-self-care 16 (53%) 47 (51%) 0.51
-usual activities 0.83

Depression (PHQ-9 ≥ 10) 10 (32%) 33 (36%) 0.83

Anxiety (PHQ-
Anxiety=anxiety symptoms,
panic)
10 (32%) 30 (33%) 1.0

Substance use (ASSIST) 0.53
-current 3 (10%) 5 (5%)
-prior 15 (50%) 53 (58%)
-never 12 (40%) 34 (37%)

Psychiatry/psychology visit 27 (73%) 74
((74%)
1.0
*

Missing data: Race = 1, CD4 = 1, VL = 1, EuroQOL Pain = 14, EuroQOL Mobility = 13, EuroQOL Self-Care = 15, EuroQOL, Usual Activities = 14, PHQ-9 = 15, PHQ-Anxiety = 14, ASSIST = 15.

**

p-value < 0.05