Table 3.

Cross-Sectional Relationships Between Neighborhood Racial Diversity, Internalized HIV Stigma, and Perceived HIV-Related Discrimination in Health Care Settings Among Women Living with HIV (N = 1256)

Variables	Outcome: internalized HIV stigmaa				Outcome: perceived HIV-related discrimination in a health care settingb
	B	SE	p	95% CI	B	SE	p	95% CI
Intercept	2.720	0.156	<0.001	2.414 to 3.026	2.160	0.201	<0.001	1.766 to 2.553
Covariates
Age (years)	−0.009	0.002	<0.001	−0.014 to −0.005	−0.003	0.003	0.222	−0.009 to 0.002
Years on ART	−0.013	0.003	<0.001	−0.019 to −0.007	−0.005	0.004	0.239	−0.012 to 0.003
>High school education	−0.082	0.041	0.047	−0.163 to −0.001	−0.041	0.050	0.411	−0.139 to 0.057
Household income	−0.035	0.010	<0.001	−0.054 to −0.016	−0.005	0.014	0.716	−0.031 to 0.022
Race (Ref: white)
Black/African American	−0.022	0.053	0.677	−0.125 to 0.081	0.021	0.070	0.764	−0.116 to 0.158
Other	0.000	0.070	0.998	−0.137 to 0.138	−0.041	0.098	0.679	−0.233 to 0.152
Neighborhood characteristics
Proportion high school	−0.001	0.001	0.367	−0.003 to 0.001	−0.002	0.002	0.270	−0.004 to 0.001
Education in neighborhood
Median household income of neighborhood/1000	0.002	0.001	0.027	0.000 to 0.003	0.002	0.001	0.028	0.000 to 0.004
RDIc	−0.359	0.095	<0.001	−0.545 to −0.173	−0.368	0.121	0.002	−0.606 to −0.131

^aInternalized HIV stigma: 7 items, range 1–4, with higher scores indicating more internalized HIV stigma.

^bPerceived HIV-related discrimination in health care settings: 1 item, range 1–4, with higher scores indicating more perceived discrimination.

^cCalculated RDI: 0 = completely homogeneous neighborhood to 1 = completely heterogeneous neighborhood.

ART, antiretroviral treatment; 95% CI, 95% confidence interval; RDI, Racial Diversity Index; SE, standard error.