Table 3.
Descriptive statistics for HIV-negative/unknown (n=556) and HIV-positive men (n=218)
| Continuous Variables | HIV-negative N (%) |
HIV-positive N (%) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 30 (24,39)1 | 47 (39,51)1 | <0.001 |
| Sexual Orientation | |||
| Gay Identified | 470 (84.5) | 185 (84.9) | 0.879 |
| Non-Gay Identified | 86 (15.5) | 33 (15.1) | |
| Ethnicity | |||
| White | 412 (74.6) | 171 (78.4) | 0.268 |
| Non-White | 140 (25.4) | 47 (21.6) | |
| Education | |||
| ≤High school diploma | 112 (20.3) | 112 (42.4) | 0.012 |
| Some college | 162 (29.3) | 58.0 (22.0) | |
| ≥College degree | 278 (50.4) | 94.0 (35.6) | |
| Annual Income | |||
| <$30,000 | 328 (59.0) | 157 (72.0) | 0.003 |
| $30,000 – $59,999 | 154 (27.7) | 46 (21.1) | |
| ≥$60,000 | 74 (13.3) | 15 (6.9) | |
| Relationship Status | |||
| Monogamous Relationship | 92 (16.7) | 33 (15.1) | 0.823 |
| Open Relationship | 123 (22.3) | 47.0 (21.6) | |
| Single | 337 (61.1) | 138.0 (63.3) | |
| Anal Sex Preference | |||
| Versatile | 141 (25.4) | 69 (31.7) | 0.192 |
| Bottom | 184 (33.1) | 74 (33.9) | |
| Top | 206 (37.1) | 66 (30.3) | |
| No Anal Sex | 25 (4.5) | 9 (4.1) | |
| Treatment Optimism Scale | 24 (20, 27)1 | 28 (25, 32)1 | <0.001 |
| Personal Sexual Altruism | 3.57 (3.14, 3.86)1 | 3.43 (2.71, 3.86)1 | 0.001 |
| Community Sexual Altruism | 3.67 (3, 4)1 | 3.17 (2.33, 4)1 | <0.001 |
| Sexual Sensation Seeking | 30 (28, 33)1 | 32 (29, 35)1 | 0.001 |
| No. of Male Anal Sex Partners2 | 3 (1,6)1 | 4 (2,19)1 | 0.008 |
| Condomless Anal Sex (CAS)2 | 0.002 | ||
| No Condomless Anal Sex | 211 (38.9) | 57 (26.8) | |
| Concordant CAS | 140 (25.8) | 57 (26.8) | |
| Serodiscordant/Unknown CAS | 192 (35.4) | 99 (46.5) |
1
Median (Q1,Q3)
2
in the past six months