Table 1.
Participant Characteristics, HIV Care Indicators, and Alcohol Use Characteristics in the Sample1
| Variables | Total (n=586) | Sex |
HIV Risk Exposure Group |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Females (n=245) | Males (n=341) | Heterosexual (n=117) | MSM (n=54) | PID (n=415) | ||||
| HIV Risk Exposure Groups | ||||||||
| Heterosexual, percent (n) | 20.0% (117) | 39.2% (96) | 6.2% (21) | |||||
| MSM, percent (n) | 9.2% (54) | 0.0% (0) | 15.8% (54) | |||||
| PID, percent (n) | 70.8% (415) | 60.8% (149) | 78.0% (266) | |||||
| Participant Characteristics | ||||||||
| Demographics | ||||||||
| Age, mean | 34.8 | 33.9 | 35.5 | 33.3 | 32.9 | 35.5 | ||
| Married, percent (n) | 19.8% (116) | 24.5% (60) | 16.4% (56) | 24.8% (29) | 0% (0) | 21% (87) | ||
| Male, percent (n) | 58.2% (341) | 17.9% (21) | 100% (54) | 64.1% (266) | ||||
| Education, percent (n) | ||||||||
| Completed middle school | 9.4% (55) | 8.2% (20) | 10.3% (35) | 4.3% (5) | 1.9% (1) | 11.8% (49) | ||
| Completed high school | 32.9% (193) | 29.4% (72) | 35.5% (121) | 27.4% (32) | 29.6% (16) | 34.9% (145) | ||
| Completed technical school | 33.6% (197) | 35.5% (87) | 32.3% (110) | 26.5% (31) | 13.0% (7) | 38.3% (159) | ||
| Had some university | 8.4% (49) | 9.4% (23) | 7.6% (26) | 7.7% (9) | 14.8% (8) | 7.7% (32) | ||
| Completed university | 15.7% (92) | 17.6% (43) | 14.4% (49) | 34.2% (40) | 40.7% (22) | 7.2% (30) | ||
| Presently in school, percent | 5.0% (29) | 6.9% (17) | 3.5% (12) | 8.5% (10) | 9.3% (5) | 3.4% (14) | ||
| Presently employed, percent | 65.7% (385) | 55.9% (137) | 72.7% (248) | 69.2% (81) | 90.7% (49) | 61.4% (255) | ||
| Living in a stable place, percent | 94.7% (555) | 97.6% (239) | 92.7% (316) | 94.9% (111) | 94.4% (51) | 94.7% (393) | ||
| Sexual orientation, percent (n) | ||||||||
| Exclusively or primarily heterosexual | 86.0% (504) | 89.8% (220) | 83.3% (284) | 94.9% (111) | 1.9% (1) | 94.5% (392) | ||
| Bisexual | 6.1% (36) | 9.0% (22) | 4.1% (14) | 5.1% (6) | 22.2% (12) | 4.3% (18) | ||
| Exclusively or primarily homosexual | 7.9% (46) | 1.2% (3) | 12.6% (43) | 0% (0) | 75.9% (41) | 1.2% (5) | ||
| Psychosocial Wellbeing Scales | ||||||||
| State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), mean | 37.20 | 37.14 | 37.25 | 34.54 | 38.33 | 37.81 | ||
| Social Provisions Scale (SPS), mean | 82.51 | 83.88 | 81.52 | 85.06 | 82.56 | 81.78 | ||
| Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS), mean | 4.72 | 4.36 | 4.97 | 3.67 | 4.72 | 5.01 | ||
| HIV Care Indicators | ||||||||
| Engaged in HIV care, percent (n/n) | 80.7% (465/576) | 83.5% (202/242) | 78.7% (263/334) | 90.4% (104/115) | 86.8% (46/53) | 77.2% (315/408) | ||
| Achieved undetectable HIV viral load, percent (n/n) | 50.0% (289/577) | 55.4% (133/240) | 46.3% (156/337) | 54.3% (63/116) | 54.7% (29/53) | 48.3% (197/408) | ||
| Alcohol Use Characteristics | ||||||||
| Any alcohol use either in the past or typical week, percent (n) | 53.2% (312) | 45.3% (111) | 58.9% (201) | 47% (55) | 74.1% (40) | 52.3% (217) | ||
| Among alcohol users, mean number of alcohol drinks past week | 10.1 | 5.7 | 12.5 | 1.79 | 7.48 | 6.09 | ||
| Among alcohol users, mean number of binge drinking days past week | .72 | .46 | .87 | 0.25 | 0.7 | 0.84 | ||
| Alcohol users who report 1 or more binge days past week, percent (n) | 27.9% (87) | 21.6% (24) | 31.3% (63) | 6.8% (8) | 22.2% (12) | 16.1% (67) | ||
| Drugs Use Characteristics | ||||||||
| Use of any illicit drugs, past month, percent (n) | 29.7% (174) | 20.8% (51) | 36.1% (123) | 9.4% (11) | 14.8% (8) | 37.3% (155) | ||
| Any drug injection, past month, percent (n) | 19.5% (114) | 14.7% (36) | 22.9% (78) | 0% (0) | 0% (0) | 27.5% (114) | ||
| Sexual HIV Transmission Risk Indicator | ||||||||
| Condomless intercourse with a nonmain partner, past 3 months, percent (n/n) | 9.2% (53/575) | 6.0% (14/235) | 11.5% (39/340) | 3.5% (4/114) | 20.8% (11/53) | 9.3% (38/408) | ||
1
Sample sizes vary slightly due to a small number of cases with missing data for several variables.