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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2017 Sep 21;9(1):e22. doi: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2016-001224

Table 1.

Demographics of the adolescent participants (n=48)

Demographic N (%)
Sex
 Male   26 (54.2)
 Female   22 (45.8)
Ethnicity
 American Indian or Alaska Native     1 (2.1)
 African American   44 (91.7)
 White     2 (4.2)
 Declined     1 (2.1)
Sexual orientation
 Heterosexual   31 (64.6)
 Homosexual     8 (16.7)
 Bisexual     7 (14.6)
 Unknown/unreported     2 (4.2)
Source of transmission
 Behaviourally infected   11 (22.9)
 Perinatally infected   36 (75.0)
 Other infected     1 (2.1)
Known diagnosis
 2 years or less   12 (25.0)
 More than 2 years   36 (75.0)
Hospitalisation history
 Hospitalised in past 4 weeks (M (SD))     3 (6.2)
 Hospitalised in last year (M (SD))   2.4 (5.8)
 Hospitalised psychiatrically (M (SD))   0.6 (3.3)
 Ever hospitalised in life (M (SD))   6.6 (13.7)
 # of ER visits in your life (M (SD)) 16.3 (35.0)
 Age of surrogate years (M (SD))    46 (15.2)
 Age of adolescent years (M (SD))    18 (1.9)

ER, emergency room.