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Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2021 Jan 28;25(9):2815–2826. doi: 10.1007/s10461-021-03172-5

Table 1b.

Socio-demographic characteristics, clinical and behavior stratified on 2-category SU stigma in unweighted and weighted sample (N=188)

Variable Unweighted Weighted by IPTW
Low SU stigma score = 21–58 (n=98) High SU stigma score = 59–105 (n=90) Standardized Difference Low SU stigma score = 21–58 (n=98) High SU stigma score = 59–105 (n=90) Standardized Difference
Male gender, n (%) 65 (66.33) 61 (67.78) 0.033 70 (71.19) 60 (67.18) −0.087
Mean age (years) (SD) 33.2 (4.8) 33.9 (5.1) 0.141 34.2 (45.5) 34 (18.1) −0.006
Education level (>9th grade), n (%) 76 (77.55) 67 (74.44) −0.073 77 (78.75) 69 (77.09) −0.039
Regularly employed, n (%) 55 (56.12) 33 (36.67) −0.401 44 (44.43) 40 (44.82) 0.009
Mean years since HIV diagnosis (SD) 7.7 (4.5) 7.8 (5.0) 0.021 7.8 (14.7) 7.5 (5.5) −0.027
Mean CES-D score (past week) (SD) 13.6 (9.4) 20.9 (10.9) 0.717 21 (60.8) 18 (7.8) −0.069
Mean Social support (past 4 weeks) (SD) 19.9 (5.1) 20.5 (5.1) 0.118 20.3 (26.6) 20.5 (12.8) 0.010
Mean HIV Symptom index HSI count (past 4 weeks) (SD) 3 (3.2) 4.6 (3.9) 0.449 4 (10.1) 4.1 (3.5) 0.013
Alcohol dependence (past year), n (%) 44 (44.9) 57 (63.33) 0.382 60 (60.79) 50 (55.91) −0.099
Unhealthy alcohol use (past 30 days), n (%) 55 (56.12) 69 (76.67) 0.455 69 (70.34) 62 (68.88) −0.031
Recent substance use (past 30 days), n (%) 31 (31.63) 46 (51.11) 0.408 36 (36.68) 37 (41.5) 0.100
Pain interference (past 4 weeks), n (%) 27 (27.55) 22 (24.44) −0.071 24 (24.31) 23 (25.7) 0.033
Transactional sex (past year) 7 (7.14%) 9 (10%) 0.103 17 (16.85%) 10 (10.92%) −0.173
HIV stigma (≥ 22), n (%) 30 (30.61) 46 (51.11) 0.431 47 (48.16) 41 (45.08) −0.062

IPTW, inverse probability of treatment weighted logistic regression models using propensity scores. The percentage represents column percentage.