Table 3.

Adjusted associations between peer support and HIV prevention patterns, awareness, and use from multivariate logistic regression models (N = 168)

Outcomes	Adjusted odds ratios (aOR)	95% CI
Testing patterns (no/yes)
Ever tested
Education	0.76	0.21–2.75
Level of outness	1.11	0.43–2.89
Age	1.24**	1.05–1.47
Peer support	1.48***	1.20–1.81
Tested for the past 6 months
Education	0.95	0.39–2.31
Level of outness	0.76	0.35–1.63
Peer support	1.22**	1.06–1.40
Testing intentions in the next 6 months (low/high)
Likelihood of testing in the next 6 months
Education	1.28	0.59–2.79
Level of outness	1.18	0.62–2.28
Peer support	1.16**	1.03–1.29
Likelihood of testing at medical office or CBO
Education	0.77	0.24–1.47
Level of outness	0.61	0.23–1.62
Level of comfort testing with one’s provider	2.36**	1.26–4.43
Peer support	1.20*	1.01–1.42
Likelihood of self-testing
Education	0.57	0.25–1.31
Level of outness	1.14	0.57–2.29
Level of comfort self-testing	1.52*	1.00–2.33
Peer support	0.81**	0.72–0.92
Prior knowledge or use (no/yes)
Knew about self-testing before today
Education	1.24	0.52–2.98
Level of outness	1.08	0.53–2.19
Peer support	1.19**	1.05–1.35
Used HIV self-testing before today
Education	0.54	0.11–2.78
Level of outness	1.71	0.52–5.59
Peer support	0.80*	0.65–0.99
Knew about CHTC before today
Education	1.50	0.68–3.35
Level of outness	0.91	0.47–1.80
Peer support	1.26***	1.12–1.42
Knew about PrEP before today
Education	3.66*	1.29–10.38
Level of outness	0.50	0.63–2.61
Peer support	1.22**	1.08–1.39
HIV prevention self-efficacy (low/high)
Education	1.35	0.60–3.03
Level of outness	1.14	0.58–2.24
Peer support	1.30***	1.15–1.47

***p < 0.001

**p < 0.01

*p < 0.05

Notes: Age was entered as a continuous (age per year) variable. Due to sample size limitations, we did not include employment, sexual identity, or relationship status into the multivariate models because they were not statistically associated (p < 0.05) with the outcomes