Table 1.
Participant characteristics
| Cannabis Use Disorder (CUD) Severity | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Absent n = 14 | Mild n = 38 | Moderate n = 38 | Severe n = 29 | Mean (SD) N = 119 | F/χ2 | p | |
| Demographics | |||||||
| Sex | 2.56 | .861 | |||||
| Male | 8 | 25 | 23 | 19 | |||
| Female | 6 | 13 | 14 | 10 | |||
| Transgender | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Race | 15.94 | .386 | |||||
| African American | 10 | 37 | 32 | 27 | |||
| White | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||
| Native American | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Biracial | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Multiracial | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Other | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Age (years) | 45.6 (9.7) | 43.9 (10.1) | 44.8 (10.3) | 45.6 (8.7) | 44.8 (9.7) | 0.20 | .897 |
| HIV status | |||||||
| Years since diagnosis | 10.3 (5.7) | 12.5 (8.6) | 10.4 (6.8) | 11.9 (7.0) | 11.4 (7.3) | 0.66 | .576 |
| Substance Use (past 90 days) | |||||||
| Marijuana frequency (# use episodes) | 180.0 (274.6) | 205.6 (202.7) | 368.6 (288.9) | 419.0 (365.4) | 306.6 (297.6) | 4.62 | .004 |
| Daily alcohol use, n (%) | 0 (0) | 5 (13.2) | 7 (18.4) | 6 (20.7) | 18 (15.1) | 3.63 | .304 |
| Any opioid use, n (%) | 8 (57.1) | 22 (57.9) | 16 (42.1) | 16 (55.2) | 62 (52.1) | 2.29 | .515 |
| Any cocaine use, n (%) | 2 (14.3) | 12 (31.6) | 5 (13.2) | 9 (31.0) | 28 (23.5) | 5.21 | .157 |
| Any sedative use, n (%) | 0 (0) | 2 (5.3) | 2 (5.3) | 3 (10.3) | 7 (5.9) | 1.97 | .579 |
| Symptoms (past 90 days) | |||||||
| STAI Y-2 | 40.4 (11.2) | 39.5 (11.5) | 41.8 (10.8) | 45.2 (12.8) | 41.7 (11.6) | 1.42 | .242 |
| BDI-II | 13.9 (7.8) | 13.7 (10.3) | 15.9 (11.1) | 16.2 (9.8) | 15.0 (10.2) | 0.50 | .685 |
| Anxiety (0–3) | 1.36 (1.28) | 0.82 (1.06) | 1.16 (1.13) | 1.28 (1.28) | 1.10 (1.17) | 1.24 | .300 |
| Depression (0–3) | 1.71 (1.14) | 1.29 (1.27) | 1.32 (1.14) | 1.17 (1.17) | 1.32 (1.19) | 0.67 | .573 |
| Pain (0–3) | 2.29 (0.99) | 1.71 (1.18) | 1.97 (1.10) | 1.62 (1.15) | 1.84 (1.14) | 1.44 | .236 |
| Poor sleep (0–3) | 1.79 (1.12) | 1.13 (1.12) | 1.76 (1.32) | 1.31 (1.23) | 1.45 (1.23) | 2.20 | .092 |
| Poor appetite (0–3) | 1.36 (1.22) | 1.13 (1.21) | 1.24 (1.15) | 1.24 (0.95) | 1.22 (1.12) | 0.15 | .928 |
| Nausea (0–3) | 0.79 (1.19) | 0.55 (0.89) | 0.76 (1.00) | 0.66 (0.90) | 0.67 (0.96) | 0.37 | .772 |
| Fatigue (0–3) | 1.57 (1.28) | 1.37 (1.17) | 1.21 (1.09) | 1.28 (1.13) | 1.32 (1.14) | 0.37 | .772 |
| Tingling in extremities (0–3) | 1.07 (1.14) | 0.89 (1.13) | 0.82 (0.98) | 1.14 (1.16) | 0.95 (1.09) | 0.57 | .639 |
| Numbness in extremities (0–3) | 0.64 (1.01) | 0.84 (1.08) | 0.92 (1.08) | 0.93 (1.07) | 0.87 (1.06) | 0.28 | .840 |