Table 3.
Utilization of existing health services, treatment optimism, conspiracy theories about HIV, perceived discrimination, and the use of peer health navigation among community-recruited and referred participants and community-recruited participants who did and did not refer
| Community-recruited participants | Referred participants | Test statistic | p value | Participants eligible to refer but did not | Participants eligible to refer and did | Test statistics | p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n = 1384 | n = 169 | n = 555 | n = 64 | |||||
| Ever HIV tested prior to this study | 1214 (88 %) | 133 (79 %) | 11.61 | < 0.001 | 472 (85 %) | 52 (83 %) | 0.31 | 0.576 |
| Times tested in the last year | 17.06 | < 0.001 | 0.19 | 0.978 | ||||
| 0 | 165 (14 %) | 35 (27 %) | 64 (14 %) | 7 (14 %) | ||||
| 1 | 456 (38 %) | 38 (29 %) | 183 (39 %) | 19 (38 %) | ||||
| 2–4 | 495 (41 %) | 51 (39 %) | 190 (41 %) | 20 (40 %) | ||||
| ≥5 | 84 (7 %) | 6 (5 %) | 30 (6 %) | 4 (8 %) | ||||
| Had health insurance | 849 (61 %) | 88 (52 %) | 5.41 | 0.020 | 365 (66 %) | 31 (48 %) | 7.47 | 0.006 |
| Place of health care | 0.905 | |||||||
| HIV/STD facilities or programs | 59 (4 %) | 14 (8 %) | 5.43 | 0.020 | 17 (3 %) | 3 (5 %) | 0.20a | 0.451 |
| Public health or research facilities | 846(61 %) | 116 (69 %) | 3.61 | 0.058 | 336 (61 %) | 37 (58 %) | 0.18 | 0.673 |
| Privacy facility | 174 (13 %) | 7 (4 %) | 10.39 | 0.001 | 64 (12 %) | 4 (6 %) | 1.63 | 0.201 |
| Comfortable with unprotected sex-treatment will continue to improve | 6.02 | 0.049 | 3.75 | 0.153 | ||||
| Disagree | 946 (69 %) | 101 (60 %) | 384 (70 %) | 37 (58 %) | ||||
| Unsure | 384 (28 %) | 56 (34 %) | 149 (27 %) | 24 (38 %) | ||||
| Agree | 46 (3 %) | 10 (6 %) | 18 (3 %) | 3 (5 %) | ||||
| Comfortable with unprotected sex-care is manageable now | 4.70 | 0.095 | 10.87 | 0.004 | ||||
| Disagree | 990 (72 %) | 105 (64 %) | 400 (73 %) | 35 (56 %) | ||||
| Unsure | 328 (24 %) | 50 (31 %) | 123 (22 %) | 26 (41 %) | ||||
| Agree | 48 (4 %) | 8 (5 %) | 25 (5 %) | 2 (3 %) | ||||
| Conspiracy theories surrounding HIV | 0.64 | 0.424 | 0.1076 | 0.320 | ||||
| Low | 1183(91 %) | 142 (93 %) | 482 (92 %) | 52 (88 %) | ||||
| High | 119 (9 %) | 11 (7 %) | 42 (8 %) | 7 (12 %) | ||||
| Perceived racism score | 4.80 | 0.028 | 5.07 | 0.024 | ||||
| Low (0–94) | 946 (77 %) | 122 (85 %) | 388 (80 %) | 37 (67 %) | ||||
| High (95–140) | 288 (23 %) | 22 (15 %) | 95 (20 %) | 18 (33 %) | ||||
| Perceived sexual discrimination score | 7.91 | 0.005 | 3.03 | 0.082 | ||||
| Low (0–84) | 945 (81 %) | 123 (90 %) | 382 (83 %) | 35 (73 %) | ||||
| High (85–125) | 228 (19 %) | 13 (10 %) | 78 (17 %) | 13 (27 %) | ||||
| Accepted peer health navigation at baseline visit | 717 (54 %) | 77 (52 %) | 0.26 | 0.609 | 312 (56 %) | 38 (59 %) | 0.20 | 0.651 |
| Number PHN visits | 4.11 | 0.128 | 7.11 | 0.029 | ||||
| 0 | 455 (55 %) | 42 (45 %) | 221 (60 %) | 18 (39 %) | ||||
| 1 | 113 (14 %) | 18 (19 %) | 44 (12 %) | 9 (20 %) | ||||
| 2+ | 258 (31 %) | 34 (36 %) | 106 (29 %) | 19 (41 %) |
a
Fisher’s exact test