Table 2.
Demographic and behavioral characteristics by men’s alcohol use, 2002–2012
| Total | Heavy drinkers (reported being drunk weekly or more frequently in the past year) | Moderate/no drinkers (reported being drunk less than weekly or never in the past year) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 1929 | 1010 | 52% | 919 | 48% |
| Demographics | |||||
| Study follow up time (days, mean, SD) | 615.9 (597.2) | 610.0 | 574.5 | 621.2 | 620.8 |
| Men’s age (mean, SD)** | 35.5 (7.7) | 35.1 | 7.0 | 36.1 | 8.3 |
| Age difference in years (mean, SD)** | 6.6 (4.6) | 6.2 | 4.4 | 7.1 | 4.7 |
| Years cohabiting (mean, SD) | 6.9 (6.1) | 6.8 | 5.8 | 7.1 | 6.4 |
| Monthly family income USD (mean, SD) | 110.4 (128.9) | 101.7 | 109.4 | 118.8 | 145.5 |
| Men read Nyanja | |||||
| Yes, easily | 869 (45%) | 435 | 43% | 434 | 47% |
| With difficulty/not at all | 1057 (55%) | 574 | 57% | 483 | 53% |
| Partner reported heavy drinking (drunk weekly or more frequently)** | 166 (9%) | 121 | 12% | 45 | 5% |
| Baseline sexual history | |||||
| Men # of sex partners last year (mean, SD)* | 1.7 (1.7) | 1.7 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 |
| Men history of STI last year* | 596 (31%) | 332 | 33% | 264 | 29% |
| Baseline clinical | |||||
| Man HIV+/Woman HIV− | 805 (42%) | 402 | 40% | 402 | 43% |
| Log viral load HIV+ partner, log10 copies (mean, SD)* | 4.4 (1.0) | 4.4 | 1.1 | 4.4 | 1.0 |
| Behavioral (time-varying, n = intervals) | |||||
| Condomless sex with partner during study | 4886 (30%) | 2572 | 30% | 2314 | 29% |
| Sex with another partner during study | 720 (5%) | 417 | 6% | 303 | 5% |
Frequencies not equal to total N due to missing data
STI sexually transmitted infection, USD United States Dollar, SD standard deviation
* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01