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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Nov 18.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2015 Jul;42(7):393–399. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000306

Table 4:

Individual, partner and partnership characteristics and cognitive factors predictive of consistency of condom use during receptive anal intercourse for women and men who have sex with men (MSM), Safe in the City Trial, 2003-5.a,b

Covariate Women (N=171) MSM (N=184)
0%-99%
(N=133)
100%
(N=38)
0%-99%
(N=114)
100%
(N=70)

INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERISTICS Mean SD Mean SD p Mean SD Mean SD p
Respondent’s age 27.6 ± 7.7 29.9 ± 10.5 0.3404 31.3 ± 8.7 30.9 ± 8.5 0.7047

Total number of sex partners 2.5 ± 3.3 2.8 ± 4.8 0.8774 4.9 ± 5.3 5.2 ± 7.7 0.5437

Respondent’s risk for STI/HIV 2.5 ± 1.0 2.6 ± 1.1 0.3585 2.8 ± 0.9 2.6 ± 0.8 0.0549

COGNITIVE FACTORS

Intention to use condoms with all partners 2.2 ± 0.5 2.5 ± 0.4 0.0030 2.1 ± 0.5 2.6 ± 0.5 <.0001

Intention for safer-sex behaviors with all partners 2.0 ± 0.5 2.0 ± 0.5 0.7270 1.9 ± 0.5 1.9 ± 0.6 0.7491

Condom use knowledge 0.9 ± 0.2 0.8 ± 0.2 0.5168 0.9 ± 0.1 0.9 ± 0.1 0.3035

STI knowledge 0.7 ± 0.2 0.7 ± 0.2 0.8057 0.8 ± 0.2 0.8 ± 0.2 0.8665

Comfort level in obtaining condoms 0.8 ± 0.2 0.8 ± 0.2 0.9374 0.9 ± 0.2 0.9 ± 0.2 0.7208

Condom use beliefs 2.2 ± 1.0 2.5 ± 1.0 0.0734 2.0 ± 0.9 2.5 ± 1.0 0.0010

Ability to stop having sex without condoms 2.6 ± 0.9 3.1 ± 0.8 0.0031 2.5 ± 0.9 3.1 ± 0.6 <.0001

Partner support for condom use 2.6 ± 0.9 3.0 ± 0.7 0.0131 2.6 ± 0.8 3.2 ± 0.7 <.0001

Condom use self-efficacy in the partnership 2.5 ± 1.1 3.1 ± 1.0 0.0037 2.6 ± 1.0 3.5 ± 0.7 <.0001
a

P-values are given for two-sided Wilcoxon rank-sum test with t-approximation

b

For some covariates, valid N is smaller than indicated due to missing values