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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2017 Oct 11;30(2):160–167. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2017.1384787

Table 7.

Discriminant validity testing of WAF single item indicators

N (%)
Overall HIV Risk
behaviors
‘Cases’
No HIV Risk
behaviors
‘Non-cases’
χ2
Based on own behavior, have at least some risk of
getting HIV (n=169)
45 (26.6) 28 (34.2) 17 (19.5) 4.61*
Suspect or think you may have HIV (n=124) 13 (10.5) 11 (20.0) 2 (2.9) 9.54**
Concern about getting HIV (“a little” or more) (n=169) 91 (53.5) 51 (61.5) 40 (46.0) 4.09*
Ever had sex (n=178) 35 (19.6) 25 (28.1) 10 (11.1) 8.2**
Ever taught about safe sex (n=179) 80 (44.9) 46 (51.7) 34 (38.2) 3.27
Ever had an STI (n=179) 8 (4.5) 8 (9.0) 0 (0.0) 8.47**
Fear of talking about condom use (n=35) 15 (42.9) 10 (40.0) 5 (50.0) 0.29
Ever HIV tested (n=179) 77 (43.0) 41 (46.1) 36 (40.0) 0.67
Partner ever HIV tested (n=34) 14 (41.2) 10 (41.7) 4 (40.0) 0.01
*

P<.05

**

P<.01