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. 2022 Mar 6;26(9):2920–2930. doi: 10.1007/s10461-022-03638-0

Table 1.

Participant characteristics

Recruitment: n (%) PLWH (N = 315) PLWOD (N = 285) Total (N = 600)
Participants 167 (51.5%) 157 (48.5%) 324 (54%)
Refusal 143 (67.8%) 68 (32.2%) 211 (35.2%)
Interrupted 5 (7.7%) 60 (92.3%) 65 (10.8%)
Characteristics Observed Total (N = 324) Kruskall-Wallis H Test χ2 Test p value
PLWH (N = 167) PLWOD (N = 157)
Age 61.0  < 0.001**
 Year: mean (sd) 51.0 (11.2) 61.6 (12.5) 56.1 (13.0)
Sex: n (%) 17.2  < 0.001**
 Male 114 (68.3%) 73 (46.5%) 187 (57.7%)
 Female 52 (31.1%) 84 (53.5%) 136 (42.0%)
 Others 1 (0.6%) 0 (0%) 1 (0.3%)
Education:
 Year: mean (sd) 10.6 (3.9) 10.7 (4) 10.6 (3.9%) 0.02 0.880
Level of education: n (%) 7.9 0.048*
 Primary school diploma 17 (10.2%) 26 (16.6%) 43 (13.3%)
 Middle school diploma 74 (44.3%) 49 (31.2%) 123 (38.0%)
 High school diploma 55 (32.9%) 65 (41.4%) 120 (37.0%)
 Degree 21 (12.6%) 17 (10.8%) 38 (11.7%)
Nationality: n (%) 3.0 0.084
 Italian 156 (93.4%) 153 (97.5%) 309 (95.4%)
 Foreigner 11 (6.6%) 4 (2.5%) 15 (4.6%)
Diagnosis: n (%) 135.7  < 0.001**
  < 5 years 17 (10.2%) 116 (73.9%) 133 (41.0%)
  ≥ 5 years 150 (89.8%) 41 (26.1%) 191 (59.0%)
Cohabitation during the interview: n (%) 12.5  < 0.001**
 Single 48 (28.7%) 20 (12.7%) 68 (21.0%)
 With someone 119 (71.3%) 137 (87.3%) 256 (79.0%)
Cohabitation during the quarantine (first wave): n (%) 12.0  < 0.001**
 Single 42 (25.2%) 17 (10.8%) 59 (18.2%)
 With someone 125 (74.9%) 140 (89.2%) 265 (81.8%)

Kruskall–Wallis H Test; Chi-Square χ2 Test

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.001