Table 1.
Summary Statistics for Respondents by Question Type
| HIV (n=304)a | HCV (n=185)a | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outcome Variable | n | % | n | % |
| Likely to participate in free testing | ||||
| Very unlikely | 11 | 3.6 | 5 | 2.7 |
| Somewhat unlikely | 12 | 4.0 | 8 | 4.3 |
| Somewhat likely | 53 | 17.4 | 24 | 13.0 |
| Very likely | 228 | 75.0 | 148 | 80.0 |
| Predisposing Factors | ||||
| Age (years) | ||||
| 18–24 | 25 | 8.2 | 15 | 8.1 |
| 25–34 | 124 | 40.8 | 71 | 38.4 |
| 35–44 | 101 | 33.2 | 59 | 31.9 |
| 45–64 | 54 | 17.8 | 40 | 21.6 |
| Highest Level of Education | ||||
| Less than high school | 96 | 31.6 | 59 | 31.9 |
| High school diploma or GED | 137 | 45.1 | 89 | 48.1 |
| Some college and above | 71 | 23.4 | 37 | 20.0 |
| Genderb | ||||
| Male | 168 | 55.3 | 100 | 54.0 |
| Female | 136 | 44.7 | 85 | 46.0 |
| Ethnicityb | ||||
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 303 | 99.7 | 185 | 100.0 |
| Race | ||||
| Self-identified as White | 296 | 97.4 | 178 | 96.2 |
| Self-identified as anything else | 8 | 2.6 | 7 | 3.8 |
| Cohabitationc | ||||
| No | 174 | 57.2 | 101 | 54.6 |
| Yes | 130 | 42.8 | 84 | 45.4 |
| Enabling Factors | ||||
| Homeless in past six months | ||||
| No | 192 | 63.2 | 118 | 63.8 |
| Yes | 112 | 36.8 | 67 | 36.2 |
| Currently have health insurance | ||||
| No | 51 | 16.8 | 33 | 17.8 |
| Yes | 253 | 83.2 | 152 | 82.2 |
| Total Income in past 30 days | ||||
| <$1000 | 217 | 71.4 | 125 | 67.6 |
| ≥$1000 | 87 | 28.6 | 60 | 32.4 |
| Needs Factors | ||||
| History of testing for HIV | ||||
| No | 104 | 34.2 | - | - |
| Yes | 200 | 65.8 | - | - |
| History of testing for HCV | ||||
| No | - | - | 83 | 44.9 |
| Yes | - | - | 102 | 55.1 |
| Shared needles, syringes, cookers, cottons, or rinse water in past 30 days | ||||
| No | 177 | 58.2 | 125 | 67.6 |
| Yes | 127 | 41.8 | 60 | 32.4 |
Missing values in any variable excluded the observation.
Other response categories had very few responses.
Those who responded “married” or “living with partner” were categorized as cohabiting. All other responses were characterized as no cohabitation.