Table I.
HIV risk behavior stratified by marijuana use among Black MSM in Chicago (n=202)
| All Respondents Marijuana Use | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nevera (n=80) |
General Onlyb (n=80) |
Sex-Druga (n=42) |
p-valuec | Total Respondents (n=202) |
|
| Attributes | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | No. (%) | |
| Demographics | |||||
| Age | |||||
| < 30 | 32 (40.0) | 55 (68.8) | 19 (45.2) | 0.001 | 108 (52.9) |
| ≥ 30 | 48 (60.0) | 25 (31.2) | 23 (54.8) | 96 (47.1) | |
| Education | |||||
| ≤ High school | 29 (36.3) | 47 (58.8) | 24 (57.1) | 0.009 | 100 (49.5) |
| > High school | 51 (63.8) | 33 (41.3) | 18 (42.9) | 102 (50.5) | |
| Employment | |||||
| Unemployed | 12 (15.0) | 13 (16.3) | 6 (14.3) | 0.12 | 31 (15.4) |
| Part-time | 20 (25.0) | 13 (16.3) | 16 (38.1) | 49 (24.3) | |
| Full-time | 48 (60.0) | 54 (67.5) | 20 (47.6) | 122 (60.4) | |
| HIV Sero-Status | |||||
| HIV-positive | 37 (48.1) | 30 (38.5) | 22 (55.0) | 0.201 | 89 (45.6) |
| HIV-negative | 40 (52.0) | 48 (61.5) | 18 (45.0) | 106 (54.4) | |
| Risk Behaviors | |||||
| Condomless Sexd | 22 (28.2) | 27 (33.8) | 23 (56.1) | 0.009 | 72 (36.2) |
| Group Sexd | 8 (10.3) | 22 (27.5) | 14 (33.3) | 0.004 | 44 (22.0) |
| Network Factors | |||||
| Proportion of social network using marijuanae | |||||
| Low: 0–31% | 41 (51.3) | 16 (20.0) | 7 (16.7) | < 0.001 | 64 (31.4) |
| Moderate: 32–58% | 17 (21.3) | 23 (28.8) | 15 (35.7) | 56 (27.5) | |
| High: 59+% | 22 (27.5) | 41 (51.3) | 20 (47.6) | 84 (41.2) | |
| Sex partner marijuana use as a sex drug | 15 (36.6) | 18 (51.4) | 32 (94.1) | < 0.001 | 65 (59.1) |
a
Over the previous twelve months
b
Any non-sex-drug use of marijuana in the previous twelve months
c
Calculated using chi-square analyses
d
Ever over the previous six months
e
Proportion of the respondent’s personal network using marijuana was defined as the number of MSM in the network who uses marijuana out of the total number of MSM in the respondent’s network