Table 1.
Demographic and health characteristics of participants not living with HIV and participants living with HIV
| Not living with HIV (N =338) | Living with HIV (N = 148) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | N | % | N | % | X 2 |
| Education | |||||
| Less than high school | 5 | 2 | 10 | 34 | 33.5** |
| Graduated high school | 55 | 16 | 50 | 59 | |
| At least some college | 278 | 82 | 88 | 70 | |
| Annual income < $25,000 | 176 | 52 | 103 | 70 | 19.7** |
| Currently unemployed | 90 | 27 | 52 | 35 | 14.8** |
| Currently in HIV care | 139 | 94 | |||
| Currently taking antiretroviral therapy | 141 | 96 | |||
| Most recent HIV viral load | |||||
| Detectable | 10 | 7 | |||
| Undetectable | 130 | 88 | |||
| Does not know | 8 | 5 | |||
| Believe they have had COVID-19 | 4 | 1 | 21 | 14 | 35.6** |
| Has been tested for COVID-19 | 46 | 14 | 41 | 47 | 13.9** |
| Tested positive for COVID-19 | 0 | 4 | 3 | ||
| M | SD | M | SD | t | |
| Age in years | 29.3 | 5.5 | 33.8 | 8.2 | 7.0** |
| Concerned about contracting COVID-19 | 63.4 | 31.8 | 70.9 | 33.0 | 2.3* |
| Personal action COVID-19 disruptions | 6.2 | 2.1 | 6.4 | 2.0 | 0.9 |
| COVID-19 prejudice score | 2.9 | 1.2 | 3.3 | 1.7 | 3.1** |
Note: * p < .05, ** p < .01