Table 1 -.
Descriptive characteristics among the 2475 participants. PESSOAS Project, Brazil, 2006
| Characteristics | Total |
|---|---|
| n (%)* | |
| SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC | |
| 1. Type of recruitment center | |
| Hospital | 898 (36.3) |
| CAPS | 1577 (63.7) |
| 2. Gender (Female) | 1277 (51.6) |
| 3. Age (≥ 40 years old) | 1351 (54 6) |
| 4. Skin color (black/mulatto) | 1200 (48.5) |
| 5. Marital status (married or in union) | 821 (33.2) |
| 6. Know how to read/write | 2032 (82.1) |
| 7. Schooling (< 5 years) | 1253 (50.6) |
| 8. Family income in the last month (< 1 MW)** | 827 (35.2) |
| 9. Current housing partnership | |
| Living with others | 1629 (65.8) |
| Living alone with children or partners only | 359 (14.5) |
| Living in the hospitals | 206 (8.3) |
| Living alone | 278 (11.2) |
| 10. History of homelessness | 444 (18.0) |
|
CLINICAL | |
| 11. Previous hospitalization | 1434 (58.2) |
| 12. Psychiatric diagnosis (ICD-10) | |
| Anxiety | 89 (3.6) |
| Depression | 318 (12.9) |
| Substance use | 173 (7.0) |
| Psychoses and Bipolar Disorder | 1403 (56.7) |
| Others | 492 (19.9) |
| 13. History of STI*** | 568 (23.3) |
| 14. Previous HIV testing | 668 (27.0) |
|
BEHAVIORAL | |
| 15. Age of first sexual intercourse (< 18 years old | 1193 (57.4) |
| 16. Lifetime sexually active | 2172 (87.8) |
| 17. Sexually active in the past six months | 1517 (61.3) |
| 18. Always used condoms (lifetime)† | 179 (8.2) |
| 19. Always used condoms (past six months)† | 245 (16.1) |
| 20. Lifetime unprotected sex†† | 1970 (80.3) |
| 21. Received money for sex | 301 (12.3) |
| 22. Offered money for sex | 428 (17.4) |
| 23. Multiple sexual partners ever (> 1) | 1523 (61.5) |
| 24. Lifetime physical violence | 1431 (58.0) |
| 25. Lifetime sexual violence | 488 (19.9) |
| 26. Lifetime verbal violence | 1700 (68.9) |
| 27. Lifetime incarceration | 637 (25.7) |
| 28. Lifetime illicit drug use | 621 (25.1) |
| 29. Lifetime injection drug use | 72 (2.9) |
| 30. Lifetime cigarette smoking | 1762 (71.5) |
| 31. Lifetime alcohol use | 1594 (64.4) |
| 32. Sex under the influence of drugs | 192 (7.9) |
| 33. Sex under the influence of alcohol | 606 (24.8) |
| 34. Good HIV/AIDS knowledge | 1354 (55.3) |
| 35. HIV risk self perception (high/some risk) | 957 (40.8) |
*
Number and proportion of all participants enrolled at the study in each variable category
**
Minimum wage = US$200
***
Sexually transmitted infections
†
Among those sexually active
††
Among all participants and excluding missing values (n = 23). Unprotected = sometimes, rarely or never used.