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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2016 Jun;20(6):1315–1326. doi: 10.1007/s10461-015-1218-4

Table 2.

Partnership-level and sexual event-level characteristics by condom use during RAI at the last sexual event with recent sexual partners reported by HIV-negative MSM


Last sexual event
with partner
No condom
used
during RAI
Condom
used
during RAI
Total F statistic
(p-value)
(N=176) (N=228) (N=404)
Partnership-level
 Partner Type 1.80 (0.13)
  Main partner 50 29.6 42 18.7 92 23.4
  Regular partner 17 10.1 24 10.7 41 10.4
  Friend/acquaintance 49 29.0 79 35.1 128 32.5
  One-time partner/unknown individual 36 21.3 70 31.1 106 26.9
  Trade partner 17 10.1 10 4.4 27 6.9
Age mixing 0.36 (0.70)
  Partner >10 years younger than participant 34 20.7 49 22.8 83 21.9
  Participant and partner within 10 years of age 108 65.9 140 65.1 248 65.4
  Partner >10 years older than participant 22 13.4 26 12.1 48 12.7
 Partner's HIV status 0.09 (0.92)
  HIV-negative 95 55.6 134 60.6 229 58.4
  HIV-positive 6 3.5 5 2.3 11 2.8
  Unknown 70 40.9 82 37.1 152 38.8
Sexual event-level
 Substance usea 70 41.7 76 33.5 146 37.0 1.38 (0.24)
  Marijuana 41 23.7 53 23.4 94 23.5 0.08 (0.78)
  Methamphetamine 43 25.2 30 13.2 73 18.3 4.94 (0.03)
  Ecstasy 2 1.2 9 4.0 11 2.8 2.33 (0.13)
  Volatile nitrites (poppers) 19 11.0 23 10.1 42 10.5 0.07 (0.79)
  Crack or powder cocaine 16 9.3 33 14.6 49 12.3 1.73 (0.19)
  Ketamine 0 0.0 2 0.9 2 0.5 -
  Gamma-hydroxybutyric acid 5 2.9 4 1.8 9 2.3 0.10 (0.76)
  Heroin 6 3.5 5 2.2 11 2.8 0.34 (0.56)
  Acid 1 0.6 4 1.8 5 1.3 0.84 (0.36)
  Mushrooms 3 1.7 4 1.8 7 1.8 0.01 (0.95)
  Oxycontin 0 0.0 5 2.2 5 1.3 -
  Vicodin 1 0.6 5 2.2 6 1.5 1.27 (0.26)
  Valium 0 0.0 4 1.8 4 1.0 -
  Viagra 9 5.2 18 7.9 27 6.8 1.02 (0.31)
 Lubricant use during RAI 92 54.1 184 82.9 276 70.4 27.2 (< 0.0001)
 Partner ejaculated inside participant 82 46.6 103 45.2 185 45.8 0.28 (0.60)
Partnership-level/sexual event-level
Collected for P1 only (N=112) (N=129) (N=241)
 Perceived partner concurrencyb 50 46.3 69 54.8 119 50.9 1.09 (0.30)
 Traded drugs, money or other goods for sexc 30 27.5 24 18.6 54 22.7 1.87 (0.18)
 Location of last sexual event 2.51 (0.12)
  Participant's home 36 32.1 44 34.1 80 33.2
  Partner's home 29 25.9 50 38.8 79 32.8
  Someone else's home 2 1.8 4 3.1 6 2.5
  Hotel or motel 15 13.4 10 7.8 25 10.4
  Car 3 2.7 2 1.6 5 2.1
  Jail or prison 6 5.4 2 1.6 8 3.3
  Crack house 0 0.0 6 4.7 6 2.5
  Other 15 14.2 11 8.5 26 10.9
Mean SD Mean SD Mean SD
Duration of RAI at last sexual event (in minutes) 15.9 17.9 20.0 17.1 17.9 17.6 2.16 (0.15)
Partnership assessment scale 14.6 8.5 12.8 7.9 13.7 8.2 2.17 (0.14)

Numbers may not sum to column total due to missing data; percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding or omission of one category for binary variables.

Abbreviations: RAI=receptive anal intercourse; MSM=men who have sex with men; SD=standard deviation; P1=last sexual partner; P2=second to last sexual partner; P3=third to last sexual partner.

a

Excludes marijuana.

b

Participant thinks partner had partners concurrent to their partnership.

c

The participant ever gave his partner drugs, money, or other goods in exchange for sex or the partner ever gave the participant drugs, money, or other goods in exchange for sex.