Table 1.
Baseline and Follow-Up Characteristics of Young Black MSM in the uConnect Cohort (n=618), UConnect, 2013–2016.
| Bridges | Gay Enclave | Black Community | Outsiders | All | Pearson’s Uncorrected Chi-Squared |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | Mean | (SE) | ||
| Demographics (baseline) | |||||||||||
| Age (years) | 23.61 | (.34) | 23.70 | (.28) | 21.31 | (.58) | 22.12 | (.34) | 22.47 | (.37) | 15.36** b |
| Low income (1 = yes) | .83 | (.04) | .77 | (.05) | .94 | (.02) | .82 | (.05) | .85 | (.03) | 20.04** |
| Health (baseline) | |||||||||||
| Previously diagnosed HIV positive (1 = yes) | .23 | (.05) | .30 | (.05) | .14 | (.03) | .17 | (.05) | .20 | (.03) | 13.98* |
| Has health service provider (1 = yes) | .84 | (.05) | .92 | (.03) | .88 | (.02) | .85 | (.04) | .88 | (.02) | 4.70 |
| Participation in HIV prevention program or research study (1 = yes) | .28 | (.05) | .29 | (.07) | .21 | (.05) | .31 | (.05) | .27 | (.03) | 4.44 |
| Sexual Orientation (baseline) | |||||||||||
| Gay (1 = yes) | .63 | (.06) | .78 | (.05) | .53 | (.05) | .55 | (.04) | .62 | (.03) | 29.89** |
| Community Closeness (baseline) | |||||||||||
| Closeness to gay community (1 = not at all close, 4 = very close) | 2.87 | (.09) | 2.75 | (.07) | 2.71 | (.11) | 2.26 | (.10) | 2.62 | (.05) | 11.30** b |
| Closeness to black community (1 = not at all close, 4 = very close) | 3.35 | (.09) | 3.27 | (.07) | 3.26 | (.06) | 3.27 | (.11) | 3.28 | (.05) | 0.31 b |
| Health services (baseline) | |||||||||||
| Received HIV prevention or treatment services from provider | .74 | (.06) | .70 | (.03) | .58 | (.07) | .69 | (.04) | .66 | (.03) | 9.90 |
| PrEP aware | .38 | (.07) | .33 | (.07) | .30 | (.04) | .33 | (.06) | .32 | (.03) | 1.32 |
| Retained in care | .45 | (.07) | .50 | (.07) | .31 | (.08) | .34 | (.09) | .41 | (.05) | 5.72 |
| Adherent to ARVs | .35 | (.08) | .42 | (.08) | .23 | (.07) | .29 | (.09) | .34 | (.05) | 5.10 |
| Virally Suppressed | .31 | (.08) | .37 | (.08) | .19 | (.07) | .25 | (.08) | .30 | (.04) | 4.98 |
| Health services (follow up) | |||||||||||
| Received HIV prevention or treatment services from provider | .66 | (.05) | .66 | (.08) | .46 | (.04) | .63 | (.06) | .59 | (.03) | 15.99† |
| PrEP aware | .58 | (.08) | .81 | (.04) | .59 | (.06) | .61 | (.06) | .65 | (.04) | 14.66* |
| Retained in care | .64 | (.08) | .46 | (.09) | .56 | (.08) | .26 | (.07) | .44 | (.04) | 12.97* |
| Adherent to ARVs | .59 | (.09) | .40 | (.09) | .55 | (.08) | .23 | (.08) | .40 | (.04) | 12.89* |
| Virally suppressed | .53 | (.09) | .38 | (.08) | .31 | (.09) | .18 | (.07) | .32 | (.05) | 10.48† |
†
p < .10
*
p < .05,
**
p < .01
Significance based on corrected F-test, corrected F-statistics
a
Estimates are weighted
b
Bivariate model F statistic utilized for continuous and ordinal variables