Table 1.
Participant Characteristics by Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Eligibility Status
| Variables | Total |
PrEP ineligible |
PrEP eligible |
|---|---|---|---|
| (N = 410) | (N = 326) | (N = 84) | |
| Recruitment site, n (%) | |||
| A (academic hospital) | 158 (39) | 127 (39) | 31 (37) |
| B (public community hospital) | 252 (61) | 199 (61) | 53 (63) |
| Age (median, IQR) | 29 (32, 23) | 29 (32, 24) | 28 (31, 21) |
| Gender, n (%) | |||
| Male | 103 (25) | 63 (19) | 40 (48) |
| Female | 303 (74) | 260 (80) | 43 (51) |
| Transgender woman or man | 4 (1) | 3 (1) | 1 (1) |
| Race/ethnicity, n (%) | |||
| Non-Hispanic black | 350 (85) | 277 (85) | 73 (87) |
| Non-Hispanic white | 15 (4) | 9 (3) | 6 (7) |
| Hispanic/other | 45 (11) | 40 (12) | 5 (6) |
| Education level, n (%) | |||
| Less than high school | 43 (11) | 30 (9) | 13 (16) |
| High school diploma/GED/vocational | 243 (59) | 196 (60) | 47 (55) |
| Some college/associate degree | 77 (19) | 66 (20) | 11 (13) |
| Bachelor degree/graduate degree | 47 (11) | 34 (11) | 13 (16) |
| Usual major activity, n (%) | |||
| Working full-time | 209 (51) | 175 (54) | 34 (41) |
| Working part-time | 66 (16) | 51 (16) | 15 (18) |
| Looking for work/going to school | 93 (23) | 70 (21) | 23 (27) |
| Disabled/homemaker/retired | 30 (7) | 20 (6) | 10 (12) |
| Declined to answer | 12 (3) | 10 (3) | 2 (2) |
| Chief complaint,an (%) | |||
| Digestive system | 94 (23) | 87 (27) | 7 (8) |
| Genitourinary system | 296 (72) | 222 (68) | 74 (88) |
| All other | 19 (5) | 16 (5) | 3 (4) |
| Location of primary source of health care, n (%) | |||
| Health care provider office | 172 (42) | 146 (45) | 26 (31) |
| ED/urgent care center | 71 (17) | 47 (14) | 24 (28) |
| Other clinic | 150 (37) | 119 (37) | 31 (37) |
| Declined to answer | 17 (4) | 14 (4) | 3 (4) |
| Insurance,an (%) | |||
| Medicaid | 282 (69) | 226 (70) | 56 (67) |
| Private | 47 (12) | 36 (11) | 11 (13) |
| Uninsured | 67 (16) | 52 (16) | 15 (18) |
| Other | 13 (3) | 11 (3) | 2 (2) |
a
Missing data (N = 1).
ED, emergency department; GED, general equivalency degree; IQR, interquartile range; PrEP, pre-exposure prophylaxis.