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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jun 15.
Published in final edited form as: J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr. 2020 Nov 1;85(3):272–279. doi: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000002461

Table 2.

Characteristics associated with methamphetamine use at baseline and/or 12 month follow up, Together 5,000 cohort study, n = 4786, 2017 – 2019

Abstinent: No use at BL or 12M
n = 4127, 86.2%
Baseline only: BL use only, no use between BL and 12M
n = 143, 3.0%
Incident use: Indicated use between BL and 12M
n = 94, 2.0%
Persistent use: Baseline and 12M use
n = 422, 8.8%
Frequency (%) Frequency (%) Frequency (%) Frequency (%) Chi-squared p
Age at enrollment 134.90 <.0001
 16–24 years old 1010 (92.2) 26 (2.4) 30 (2.7) 30 (2.7)
 25–35 years old 2081 (85.7) 91 (3.8) 45 (1.9) 212 (8.7)
 36–45 years old 797 (80.3) 20 (2.0) 18 (1.8) 157 (15.8)
 46–55 years old 239 (88.9) 6 (2.2) 1 (0.4) 23 (8.6)
Gender 10.37 0.02
 Male 4029 (86.3) 135 (2.9) 89 (1.9) 417 (8.9)
 Gender minority 98 (84.5) 8 (6.9) 5 (4.3) 5 (4.3)
Race/ethnicity 44.72 <.0001
 White 2202 (85.8) 64 (2.5) 43 (1.7) 259 (10.1)
 Black 438 (90.7) 14 (2.9) 12 (2.5) 19 (3.9)
 Latinx 965 (85.0) 48 (4.2) 27 (2.4) 96 (8.5)
 API 171 (93.4) 3 (1.6) 3 (1.6) 6 (3.3)
 All Other, Multiracial 351 (84.4) 14 (3.4) 9 (2.2) 42 (10.1)
Incident HIV at 12 months (HIV diagnoses between BL and 12M) 75.74 <.0001
 No 4064 (87.0) 138 (3.0) 88 (1.9) 381 (8.2)
 Yes 63 (54.8) 5 (4.4) 6 (5.2) 41 (35.7)
Prevalent HIV (baseline and 12 months) 183.40 <.0001
 No 3876 (88.4) 116 (2.6) 87 (2.0) 308 (7.0)
 Yes 138 (55.0) 18 (7.2) 6 (2.4) 89 (35.5)
 Indeterminate 38 (79.2) 3 (6.3) 0 (0.0) 7 (14.6)
Syphilis 122.06 <.0001
 No diagnoses (lifetime) 3786 (88.1) 116 (2.7) 84 (2.0) 314 (7.3)
 In the year prior to enrollment 120 (76.9) 8 (5.1) 1 (0.6) 27 (17.3)
 Incident: Diagnosis between enrollment and 12 months 185 (69.6) 16 (6.0) 8 (3.0) 57 (21.4)
 Persistent: In the year prior to enrollment as well as following enrollment 36 (56.3) 3 (4.7) 1 (1.6) 24 (37.5)
Incarceration 376.85 <.0001
 No incarceration in lifetime or during 12 month follow up 3682 (90.1) 93 (2.3) 84 (2.1) 227 (5.6)
 Lifetime: Prior to enrollment, but not during 12 month follow up 365 (66.7) 36 (6.6) 7 (1.3) 139 (25.4)
 Incident: Incarcerated between enrollment and 12 month 56 (76.7) 4 (5.5) 0 (0.0) 13 (17.8)
 Persistent: In the year prior to enrollment as well as following enrollment 24 (30.0) 10 (12.5) 3 (3.8) 43 (53.8)

BL: Baseline (reported at BL with a 3 month recall window), 12M: 12 months (reported at month 12 with a 12 month recall window)