. 2016 Mar;106(3):492–496. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302985

TABLE 1—

Association of Participants’ Characteristics and Mean AIDS Attitude Scale, Generic Version, Stigma Scores in a Sample of South Carolina Faith-Based Organizations: 2008–2009

		Crude Models		Adjusted Model
Characteristic	No. (%)	Mean (SE)	P	Mean (SE)	P
Gender			< .001		.001
Male	513 (29.4)	1.50^a (0.054)		2.04^a (0.097)
Female	1234 (70.6)	1.05^b (0.084)		1.69^b (0.118)
Age, y			.001		.51
18–25	187 (10.7)	1.40^a (1.128)		2.02^a (0.181)
26–34	253 (14.5)	1.00^a (0.765)		1.75^a (0.150)
35–44	402 (23.0)	0.99^a (0.804)		1.75^a (0.131)
45–54	381 (21.8)	1.16^a (0.969)		1.88^a (0.130)
55–64	349 (20.0)	1.17^a (0.966)		1.80^a (0.129)
≥ 65	175 (10.0)	1.71^b (1.432)		1.98^a (0.155)
Educational attainment			< .001		< .001
Grades 1–11	154 (8.8)	2.05^a (0.150)		2.46^a (0.166)
Grade 12 or GED	453 (25.9)	1.63^a (0.088)		2.19^a (0.117)
Some college	577 (33.0)	0.95^b (0.078)		1.60^b (0.113)
College graduate	347 (19.9)	0.76^b (0.100)		1.48^b (0.135)
Graduate school	216 (12.4)	0.91^b (0.127)		1.60^b (0.156)
Marital status			.005		.27
Single	576 (33.0)	1.16^a (0.079)		1.79^a (0.109)
Married	862 (49.4)	1.16^a (0.065)		1.79^a (0.099)
Divorced	201 (11.5)	1.00^a (0.134)		1.73^a (0.155)
Widowed	108 (6.1)	1.79^b (0.183)		2.16^a (0.201)
Religiosity			.03		.16
High	1183 (67.7)	1.11^a (0.056)		1.82^a (0.102)
Low	564 (32.3)	1.32^b (0.080)		1.96^a (0.115)

Note. GED = general equivalency diploma. Adjusted model is adjusted for age group, educational attainment, marital status, religiosity, having a family member with HIV/AIDS, having personally known someone with HIV/AIDS, and knowing someone who is gay. Pairwise comparisons that do not share a superscript letter are significant at P < .05.