Table 2.
Multivariate analyses of the relationship between substance use and high-risk sexual behaviors among 3,588 MSM in Beijing, China.
| Drug and alcohol use | Infection status | Sexual risk behaviors with male partners | Sexual risk behaviors with female partners | ||||||
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| HIV infectiona | Syphilis infectiona | Condomless lAI in the past 3 monthsa | Condomless RAI in the past 3 monthsa | Lifetime male sexual partners (<10 vs. ≥10)a | Multiple male partners in the past 3 months (≤1 vs. ≥2)a | Having sex with female partners in lifetime?? | Having sex with female partners in the past 3 monthsa | Having condomless sex with female partners in the past 3 monthsa | |
| aOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) | aOR(95% CI) | |
| Drug use (binary) | 1.5 (1.2,1.8)** | 1.2(0.9,1.7) | 1.2(1.0,1.5)* | 1.9(1.6,2.2)*** | 2.1(1.8,2.4)*** | 2.3(2.0,2.7)*** *** | 1.0(0.8,12) | 0.7(0.5,0.9)** | 0.8(0.5,1.1) |
| Alcohol (binary) | 1.0(0.8,1.2) | 1.1(0.8,1.4) | 1.7(1.5,2.0)*** | 1.3(1.1,1.6)*** | 12(1.0,1.4)* | 1.1(0.9,12) | 1.9(1.6,22)*** | 1.5(12,1.9)** | 1.3(1.0,1.8) |
| Alcohol (ordinal) | |||||||||
| Never | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 1.0 |
| ≤1/month | 0.8(0.7,1.0) | 1.0(0.7,13) | 1.5(1.2,1.8)*** | 1.3(1.1,1.6)** | 1.1(0.9,1.3) | 1.0(0.8,1.1) | 1.5(1.3,1.9)*** | 12(0.89,1.6) | 12(0.8,1.7) |
| 2–4/month | 1.2(0.9,1.6) | 1.2(0.8,1.7) | 2.0(1.6,2.5)*** | 1.3(1.05,1.7)* | 1.4(1.1,1.7)** | 12(1.0,1.5) | 2.1(1.7,2.7)*** | 1.8(125,2.4)*** | 12(0.8,1.8) |
| >2-3/week | 1.1(0.8,1.5) | 12(0.8,1.8) | 2.3(1.7,3.0)*** | 1.4(1.1,1.9)* | 1.3(1.0,1.7)* | 1.3(1.0,1.6) | 3.0(22,4.0)*** | 1.9(1.3,2.8)*** | 1.8(12,2.8)** |
aOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; RAI: receptive anal intercourse; IAI: insertive anal intercourse.
Adjusted for demographic variables (age, ethnicity, marriage, education, employment, income, years of living in Beijing, Beijing Hukou (or household registration), age of sex debut, health insurance).
p < 0.05,
p < 0.01,
p < 0.001.