TABLE 1.
Sociodemographic Characteristics of and Changes in Mental and Sexual Health Among Latinx SMM and TGW (n = 50)
| Variable | Pre-COVID-19 Survey |
z-stat | COVID-19 Survey |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SMM | TGW | Pooled | Pooled | SMM | TGW | ||
| Age | 39.7 | 40.2 | 38.5 | ||||
| At least a high school education | 82.9 | 46.7 | 72 | ||||
| Full-time employed | 65.7 | 46.7 | 60 | ||||
| Annual income >$35,000 | 22.9 | 6.7 | 18 | ||||
| Relationship status | |||||||
| Single | 68 | 65.7 | 73.3 | ||||
| Married or living with a partner | 30 | 31.4 | 26.7 | ||||
| Divorced/separated/widowed | 2 | 2.9 | 0 | ||||
| Documentation status | |||||||
| US citizen or permanent resident | 62 | 65.7 | 53.3 | ||||
| Deferred action for childhood arrivals (DACA), asylum, and U visas for victims of violent crimes | 10 | 5.7 | 20 | ||||
| Undocumented | 20 | 20 | 20 | ||||
| Others | 8 | 8.6 | 6.7 | ||||
| COVID-19 characteristics | |||||||
| Have a risk factor increasing potential complications of COVID-19 | 34 | 40 | 20 | ||||
| Currently or previously had COVID-19 symptoms | 14 | 14 | 13.3 | ||||
| Tested positive for COVID-19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Mental health | |||||||
| Fraction likely well | 74 | 93 | 80 | −2.62‡ | 56 | 58 | 50 |
| Sexual health | |||||||
| Condomless sex | 29 | 53 | 36 | −1.90* | 19 | 14 | 31 |
| Perceived HIV risk from condomless sex | 18 | −2.73‡ | 2 | ||||
The value displayed for paired z-tests are the differences in means between surveys.
‡, †, and * indicate significance at the alpha = 0.01, 0.05, and 0.1 levels, respectively.