TABLE 2.
Alcohol consumption.
| Variable | Sample | Rural |
Urban |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIV-positive |
HIV-negative |
p† | HIV-positive |
HIV-negative |
p‡ | ||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | ||||
| History of alcohol use | RHP 88, RHN 450; UHP†† 163, UHN 244 | ||||||||||
| Never used alcohol | - | 13 | 14.8 | 100 | 22.2 | - | 68 | 41.7 | 118 | 48.4 | - |
| Currently use alcohol | - | 48 | 54.6 | 214 | 47.6 | 0.23 | 69 | 42.3 | 89 | 36.5 | 0.22 |
| Formerly used alcohol | - | 27 | 30.7 | 136 | 30.2 | - | 26 | 16.0 | 37 | 15.2 | - |
| If currently, what form | |||||||||||
| Spirits | RHP 47, RHN 204; UHP 66, UHN 84 | 10 | 21.3 | 34 | 16.7 | - | 7 | 10.6 | 5 | 6.0 | - |
| Wine | RHP 47, RHN 206; UHP 65, UHN 83 | 8 | 17.0 | 41 | 19.9 | - | 8 | 12.3 | 10 | 12.1 | - |
| Beer, cider | RHP 46, RHN 205; UHP 66, UHN 83 | 31 | 67.4 | 114 | 55.6 | - | 47 | 71.2 | 54 | 65.1 | - |
| Homemade beer | RHP 45, RHN 202; UHP 65 UHN 83 | 22 | 47.8 | 117 | 57.9 | - | 13 | 20.0 | 24 | 28.9 | - |
| At least once a month consume > 5 drinks/day | RHP 48, RHN 206; UHP 66, UHN 88 | 21 | 43.8 | 88 | 42.7 | 0.89 | 26 | 39.4 | 34 | 41.0 | 0.84 |
| Feel tired on Monday after heavy alcohol consumption (> 5 drinks/day) | RHP 19, RHN 68; UHP 22, UHN 27 | 16 | 84.2 | 42 | 61.8 | 0.07 | 15 | 68.2 | 22 | 81.5 | 0.28 |
†
, p-value for difference between HIV-positive and HIV-negative rural participants using chi-squared or Fisher’s exact test, as appropriate;
‡
, p-value for difference between HIV-positive and HIV-negative urban participants using chi-squared or Fisher’s exact test, as appropriate;
RHP, rural, HIV-positive; RHN, rural, HIV-negative; UHP, urban, HIV-positive; UHN, urban, HIV-negative.