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Published in final edited form as: Ethn Health. 2019 May 22;26(7):1028–1044. doi: 10.1080/13557858.2019.1620175

Table 2.

Associations between study site and potential mediators by gender

	Women n=797		Men n=768
Risk factors mean(SE)	Laredo N=389	Brownsville/McAllen N=408	Laredo N=362	Brownsville/McAllen N=406
Permissive climate
Perceived drug availability	0.14 (0.01)	0.07 (0.01)^***	0.27 (0.01)	0.10 (0.01)^***
Perceived safety	3.1 (0.04)	3.2 (0.05)^**	3.3 (0.03)	3.7 (0.04)^***
Stress exposures
Exposure to violence/crime Social support	0.20 (0.01)	0.09 (0.01)^***	0.26 (0.01)	0.11 (0.01)^***
Significant other support	4.5 (0.03)	4.6 (0.04)	4.3 (0.03)	4.5 (0.04)^***
Family support	4.5 (0.03)	4.5 (0.04)	4.2 (0.03)	4.5 (0.04)^***
Friend support	4.3 (0.03)	4.1 (0.05)^**	4.0 (0.03)	3.8 (0.06)^*

^***

p≤0.001,

^**

p≤0.01,

p≤0.05