Table 6.

Multivariate associations between socio-demographic characteristics, past experience with and communication about HIV, and attitudes about drug use and homosexuality and HIV stigma (N=1,235 for all models)^a

Variable	HIV stigma factors (95% CI)
	Discomfort	Shame	Rejection	Blame
Knows someone HIV+	−0.25 (−0.37, −0.13) ***	−0.16 (−0.29, −0.03) *	−0.14 (−0.27, −0.01) *	−0.15 (−0.28, −0.03) *
Female gender	−0.02 (−0.13, 0.09)	0.02 (−0.10, 0.14)	0.04 (−0.08, 0.16)	−0.17 (−0.28, −0.06) **
Age (continuous)	0.03 (−0.03, 0.10)	−0.14 (−0.21, −0.07) ***	−0.01 (−0.07, 0.05)	−0.05 (−0.12, 0.01)
U.S.-born Latinob	0.35 (0.13, 0.57) **	0.12 (−0.10, 0.33)	−0.11 (−0.33, 0.11)	0.03 (−0.19, 0.26)
Foreign-born Latino, high English proficiencyb	0.03 (−0.19, 0.25)	−0.09 (−0.32, 0.13)	−0.37 (−0.60, −0.15) **	−0.32 (−0.55, −0.10) **
Foreign-born Latino, low English proficiencyb	0.13 (−0.08, 0.35)	−0.21 (−0.43, 0.01)	−0.29 (−0.51, −0.07) *	−0.28 (−0.51, −0.05) *
Higher education	−0.12 (−0.19, −0.05) ***	0.02 (−0.05, 0.09)	0.02 (−0.05, 0.09)	−0.04 (−0.11, 0.03)
Total HIV information received at church	0.01 (−0.05, 0.07)	−0.04 (−0.10, 0.03)	−0.01 (−0.07, 0.06)	0.08 (0.02, 0.14) **
Number of people spoken with about HIV at church	0.04 (−0.02, 0.11)	−0.06 (−0.13, 0.00) *	−0.03 (−0.09, 0.04)	0.01 (−0.07, 0.08)
Number of people spoken with about HIV outside church	−0.07 (−0.13, −0.01) *	0.05 (−0.01, 0.12)	0.03 (−0.04, 0.09)	0.00 (−0.07, 0.06)
Spoke with clergy about HIV (yes/no)	0.00 (−0.18, 0.19)	0.11 (−0.09, 0.31)	0.07 (−0.12, 0.26)	0.13 (−0.09, 0.35)
Drug addiction stigma scale	0.16 (0.10, 0.22) ***	0.22 (0.16, 0.29) ***	0.18 (0.12, 0.25) ***	0.19 (0.13, 0.25) ***
Homosexuality stigma scale	0.12 (0.06, 0.18) ***	0.19 (0.13, 0.25) ***	0.17 (0.11, 0.23) ***	0.25 (0.19, 0.31) ***

^aCoefficients shown in table are standardized; bolded entries are statistically significant (p<.05)

^bReference group: African American

^*p<0.05;

^**p<0.01;

^***p<0.001