Table 5.
| a: English-speaking participants demographic characteristics comparison | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Mechanical Turk |
Others | p-value | ||
| n=78 | n=347 | n=57 | P< | |
| Age (years; median, IQR) | 25.5 (20.0, 36) | 28.0 (25.0, 37.0) | 25.0 (20.0, 33.0) | 0.00 |
| % | % | % | ||
| Gender (female) | 29.5 | 44.1 | 57.9 | 0.00 |
| Education | 0.43 | |||
| No school | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Elementary | 1.3 | 0.3 | 1.8 | |
| High school | 3.8 | 2.4 | 3.5 | |
| General equivalency diploma | 6.4 | 8.9 | 14.1 | |
| College | 20.5 | 26.5 | 33.3 | |
| Bachelor degree | 48.7 | 45.5 | 31.6 | |
| Graduate school or higher | 9.2 | 16.4 | 15.8 | |
| Language skills | 0.00 | |||
| Very well | 59.0 | 82.4 | 93.0 | |
| Well | 34.6 | 17.6 | 7.1 | |
| Somewhat | 3.9 | 0.0 | 0.9 | |
| Not well | 2.6 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Self-reported HIV test | ||||
| Have ever tested for HIV | 21.8 | 38.6 | 45.6 | |
| Last HIV test | 0.02 | |||
| Less than 6 months ago | 52.9 | 17.2 | 23.1 | |
| Less than 1 year ago | 5.9 | 16.4 | 15.4 | |
| Less than 2 years ago | 29.4 | 18.4 | 26.9 | |
| Less than 5 years ago | 0.0 | 20.9 | 26.9 | |
| More than 5 years ago | 11.8 | 26.1 | 7.7 | |
| Health literacy | ||||
| Confidence with completing forms | 0.00 | |||
| Not at all | 12.8 | 0.9 | 1.8 | |
| A litte bit | 12.8 | 6.6 | 5.3 | |
| Somewhat | 14.1 | 17.3 | 21.1 | |
| Quite a bit | 28.2 | 32.0 | 43.9 | |
| Extremely | 32.0 | 43.2 | 28.1 | |
| Difficulty reading/understanding forms | 0.02 | |||
| Most of the time | 2.6 | 3.8 | 7.0 | |
| Some of the time | 15.4 | 21.0 | 7.0 | |
| A little of the time | 39.7 | 32.3 | 22.8 | |
| None of the time | 42.3 | 43.0 | 63.2 | |
| Needing help with forms | 0.00 | |||
| Most of the time | 7.7 | 5.8 | 5.3 | |
| Some of the time | 20.5 | 17.9 | 3.5 | |
| A little of the time | 29.5 | 32.9 | 21.1 | |
| None of the time | 43.5 | 70.2 | 70.10 | |
| b: Spanish-speaking participants demographic characteristics comparison | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Mechanical Turk |
p-value | ||
| n=173 | n=156 | P< | |
| Age (years; median and IQR) | 27.0 (21.0, 38) | 29.5 (25.0, 36.0) | 0.02 |
| % | % | ||
| Gender (female) | 49.7 | 47.4 | 0.00 |
| Education | 0.00 | ||
| No school | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| Elementary | 1.2 | 0.0 | |
| High school | 9.8 | 1.3 | |
| General equivalency diploma | 16.2 | 8.3 | |
| College | 37.0 | 28.2 | |
| Bachelor degree | 27.8 | 49.4 | |
| Graduate school or higher | 8.1 | 12.8 | |
| Language skills % | 0.00 | ||
| Very well | 91.3 | 78.2 | |
| Well | 8.7 | 18.0 | |
| Somewhat | 0.0 | 1.9 | |
| Not well | 0.0 | 1.9 | |
| Self-reported HIV test | |||
| Have ever tested for HIV | 55.0 | 52.0 | |
| Last HIV test | 0.60 | ||
| Less than 6 months ago | 24.2 | 22.2 | |
| Less than 1 year ago | 19.0 | 24.7 | |
| Less than 2 years ago | 14.7 | 19.8 | |
| Less than 5 years ago | 28.4 | 19.8 | |
| More than 5 years ago | 13.7 | 13.6 | |
| Health literacy | |||
| Confidence with completing forms | 0.00 | ||
| Not at all | 14.5 | 18.0 | |
| A little bit | 20.3 | 7.7 | |
| Somewhat | 30.1 | 23.7 | |
| Quite a bit | 27.8 | 32.7 | |
| Extremely | 7.5 | 18.0 | |
| Difficulty reading/understanding forms | 0.20 | ||
| Most of the time | 2.9 | 2.6 | |
| Some of the time | 19.1 | 14.1 | |
| A little of the time | 31.2 | 42.3 | |
| None of the time | 46.8 | 41.0 | |
| Needing help with forms | 0.06 | ||
| Most of the time | 4.6 | 0.0 | |
| Some of the time | 15.6 | 17.3 | |
| A little of the time | 25.4 | 26.9 | |
| None of the time | 54.3 | 55.8 | |
*
IQR=interquartile range