Table 5.
Sociodemographic, sexual behavior, and identity- and attachment-related characteristics and HIV acquisitiona risk behavior among African American/Black and Latino MSM, M2MNYC, N = 498
| Characteristics | Total | Acquisition risk (N = 498) |
p value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N (%) | Yes | No | ||
| Recruitment | N (%) | N (%) | NS | |
| Venue | 273 (54.8) | 27 (50.9) | 246 (55.3) | |
| Online | 225 (45.2) | 26 (49.1) | 199 (44.7) | |
| Sociodemographic | ||||
| Age (Mean, SD) | 29.5 (9.1) | 28.7 (9.7) | 29.6 (9.1) | NS |
| Age, categorized | NS | |||
| 18–24 | 176 (35.3) | 19 (35.9) | 157 (35.3) | |
| 25–29 | 142 (28.5) | 19 (35.9) | 123 (27.6) | |
| 30–39 | 104 (20.9) | 10 (18.9) | 94 (21.1) | |
| 40+ | 76 (15.3) | 5 (9.4) | 71 (16.0) | |
| Race/ethnicity | NS | |||
| Black | 208 (41.8) | 22 (41.5) | 186 (41.8) | |
| Hispanic | 290 (58.2) | 31 (58.5) | 259 (58.2) | |
| Education | NS | |||
| Less than high school graduate | 31 (6.2) | 5 (9.4) | 26 (5.8) | |
| High school graduate | 72 (14.5) | 12 (22.6) | 60 (13.5) | |
| Some college | 208 (41.8) | 17 (32.1) | 191 (42.9) | |
| College graduate or more | 187 (37.6) | 19 (35.9) | 168 (37.8) | |
| Employment | NS | |||
| Working full-time | 188 (37.8) | 20 (37.7) | 168 (37.8) | |
| Working part-time | 133 (26.7) | 11 (20.8) | 122 (27.4) | |
| Not working, looking/not working, not looking/temporarily laid off/retired | 158 (31.7) | 22 (41.5) | 136 (30.6) | |
| Working off the book/other | 19 (3.8) | 0 (0.0) | 19 (4.3) | |
| Personal income | NS | |||
| <$10,000 | 154 (31.7) | 24 (45.3) | 130 (30.0) | |
| $10,000–39,999 | 211 (43.4) | 19 (35.9) | 192 (44.3) | |
| $40,000–59,999 | 72 (14.8) | 4 (7.6) | 68 (15.7) | |
| $60,000+ | 49 (10.1) | 6 (11.3) | 43 (9.9) | |
| Financial insecurity | ||||
| Not enough $ for rent, food, or utilities | 265 (53.5) | 30 (56.6) | 235 (53.2) | NS |
| Not enough $ for social activity | 372 (74.9) | 42 (79.3) | 330 (74.3) | NS |
| Partnership Status | ||||
| Married or registered domestic partner | 16 (3.2) | 3 (5.7) | 13 (2.9) | NS |
| Sexual identity | NS | |||
| Gay, homosexual, queer, same gender loving, etc. | 407 (81.7) | 46 (86.8) | 361 (81.1) | |
| Bisexual | 70 (14.1) | 6 (11.3) | 64 (14.4) | |
| Straight, heterosexual | 5 (1.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (1.1) | |
| Unsure or questioning/other/missing | 16 (3.2) | 1 (1.9) | 15 (3.4) | |
| Mean (SD) | ||||
| “Outness” (Mean, SD) | 7.8 (2.5) | 7.9 (2.5) | 7.8 (2.5) | NS |
| Racial/ethnic identity (Mean, SD) | 3.1 (0.5) | 3.0 (0.5) | 3.1 (0.5) | NS |
| Gay community attachment (Mean, SD) | 3.1 (0.5) | 3.0 (0.6) | 3.1 (0.5) | NS |
| Condom use-related | ||||
| Condom use self efficacy (Mean, SD) | 4.3 (0.6) | 3.9 (0.6) | 4.3 (0.6) | <.001 |
| Perceived peer condom use norms (Mean, SD) | 3.0 (0.5) | 3.0 (0.5) | 3.0 (0.6) | NS |
a
HIV acquisition risk behavior was coded as 1 among HIV-negative participants who had unprotected receptive anal sex with any type (e.g., primary, casual, etc.) of HIV-positive or unknown HIV status male sex partner; the remaining HIV-negative participants were coded as 0