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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 2.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Infect. 2018 Aug 31;95(3):175–180. doi: 10.1136/sextrans-2017-053490

Table 2.

Poisson regression predicting likelihood of one or more HIV/STI diagnoses among substance-using young adults (N=602)1

B SE X2 OR 95% CI
Demographics
Foster care history 0.53 0.30 3.12* 1.69 −0.06 1.11
Gender (ref=female) −0.36 0.18 4.16* 0.70 −0.71 −0.01
Race (ref=Black) Hispanic −0.69 0.61 1.26 0.50 −1.89 0.51
White −0.21 0.31
Other 0.42 0.31
Sexual Behaviours
Group sex participation history 0.56 0.28 4.01* 1.76 0.01 1.12
Condomless sex frequenciesa 0.00 0.00 0.18 1.00 −0.01 0.00
Substance Use-Related Measures
Days ecstasy usea −0.00 0.01 0.78 0.99 −0.02 0.01
Substance dependence symptomsb −0.06 0.08 0.59 0.94 −0.22 0.10
High during sex almost all the timea 0.11 0.27 0.16 1.11 −0.42 0.63
Victimisation history
Sexual victimisation 1.16 0.31 14.29*** 3.18 0.56 1.76
Additional Health and Social Problems
Mental distress symptomsb 0.01 0.03 0.15 1.01 −0.04 0.07
Homelessness history −0.24 0.30 0.67 0.79 −0.82 0.34
Interactions
Foster care X group sex participation −0.60 0.30 3.94* 0.83 −1.20 −0.01
Foster care X sexual victimization −0.18 0.28 0.44 0.55 −0.73 0.36
Foster care X homelessness 0.43 0.29 2.20 1.54 −0.14 1.00
Foster care X high during sex almost all the time −0.07 0.27 0.07 0.93 −0.59 0.45
1

22% (134/602) with one or more HIV/STI diagnoses;

*

p<.05;

**

p<.01;

***

p<.001;

a

past 90 days;

b

past year