Table 1.

Baseline sample characteristics of injection drug users (PWUD) and family members by HIV status of PWUD (n=83).

	HIV status of PWUD
Parameter	Positive (n=16)	Negative (n=67)	p-valuea
Age (Mean ± SD)
PWUD	32.5 ± 4.35	33.9 ± 7.30	0.4519
FM	52.63 ± 16.06	41.38 ± 15.31	0.0107
Male (%)
PWUD	16 (100)	66 (100)	–
FM	0 (0)	8 (11.9)	0.3436b
Years of education (Mean ± SD)
PWUD	11.25 ± 2.79	10.63 ± 2.28	0.3505
FM	8.94 ± 4.07	10.28 ± 4.12	0.2427
PWUD’ overall stigma (Mean ± SD)	63.00 ± 3.88	59.34 ± 7.16	0.0525
Depressive symptoms (Mean ± SD)
PWUD	17.13 ± 4.06	17.54 ± 5.61	0.7827
FM	19.75 ± 5.76	18.09 ± 4.71	0.2287
Tangible support (Mean ± SD)
PWUD	15.56 ± 2.37	14.87 ± 3.81	0.4866
FM	13.63 ± 2.90	15.70 ± 3.73	0.0408
Drug use (Mean ± SD)	0.11 ± 0.07	0.15 ± 0.07	0.1067
Family member caregiver burden (Mean ± SD)	50.88 ± 10.84	53.88 ± 7.95	0.2105

^aIndependent sample t-test;

^bFisher’s Exact test