Table 2.
Sociodemographic characteristics of all PP1 participants by current and past HIV-serodiscordant relationship
| Characteristic | Total N (%) |
Current Relationship n (%) |
Past Relationship n (%) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | 613 | 540 | 73 | |
| Age, Mean (SD) | 42.6 (11.9) | 42.8 (11.9) | 40.9 (12.0) | 0.204 |
| Survey format | 613 | 540 | 73 | 0.795 |
| Web | 543 (88.6) | 479 (88.7) | 64 (87.7) | |
| Phone | 70 (11.4) | 61 (11.3) | 9 (12.3) | |
| Language | 613 | 540 | 73 | 0.805 |
| English | 567 (92.5) | 500 (92.6) | 67 (91.8) | |
| French | 46 (7.5) | 40 (7.4) | 6 (8.2) | |
| HIV status | 613 | 540 | 73 | 0.855 |
| Positive | 355 (57.9) | 312 (57.8) | 43 (58.9) | |
| Negative | 258 (42.1) | 228 (42.2) | 30 (41.1) | |
| Province | 609 | 536 | 73 | 0.162 |
| British Columbia | 70 (11.5) | 65 (12.1) | 5 (6.9) | |
| Prairies | 86 (14.1) | 72 (13.3) | 14 (19.2) | |
| Ontario | 351 (57.6) | 309 (57.7) | 42 (57.5) | |
| Quebec | 66 (10.8) | 55 (10.3) | 11 (15.1) | |
| Atlantic | 36 (5.9) | 35 (6.5) | 1 (1.4) | |
| Territories | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Gender | 612 | 539 | 73 | 0.006 |
| Man | 432 (70.6) | 392 (72.7) | 40 (54.8) | |
| Woman | 166 (27.1) | 136 (25.2) | 30 (41.1) | |
| Othera | 14 (2.3) | 11 (2.0) | 3 (4.1) | |
| Gender by sexuality | 613 | 540 | 73 | 0.003 |
| Gay man | 281 (45.8) | 260 (48.1) | 21 (28.8) | |
| Heterosexual woman | 135 (22.0) | 109 (20.2) | 26 (35.6) | |
| Heterosexual man | 109 (17.8) | 97 (18.0) | 12 (16.4) | |
| Otherb | 88 (14.4) | 74 (13.7) | 14 (19.2) | |
| Race/ethnicity | 604 | 531 | 73 | 0.771 |
| White | 401 (66.4) | 353 (66.5) | 48 (65.8) | |
| Black | 47 (7.8) | 43 (8.1) | 4 (5.5) | |
| Hispanic | 49 (8.1) | 40 (7.5) | 9 (12.3) | |
| Indigenous | 49 (8.1) | 44 (8.3) | 5 (6.8) | |
| Otherc | 58 (9.6) | 51 (9.6) | 7 (9.6) | |
| Education | 609 | 537 | 72 | 0.007 |
| Less than secondary school diploma | 72 (11.8) | 59 (11.0) | 13 (18.1) | |
| Secondary school diploma | 127 (20.9) | 109 (20.3) | 18 (25.0) | |
| Beyond secondary school | 410 (67.3) | 369 (68.7) | 41 (56.9) | |
| Income | Unavailable | 535 | Unavailable | – |
| No income | 16 (3.0) | |||
| Less than $10,000 | 50 (9.4) | |||
| $10,000 - $19,999 | 127 (23.7) | |||
| $20,000 - $49,999 | 173 (32.3) | |||
| $50,000 - $79,999 | 82 (15.3) | |||
| $80,000 or more | 79 (14.8) | |||
| Don’t know | 8 (1.5) | |||
| Employmentd | Unavailable | 538 | Unavailable | – |
| Full-time | 272 (50.6) | |||
| Part-time | 66 (12.3) | |||
| On disability | 116 (21.6) | |||
| Volunteer | 44 (8.2) | |||
| Retired | 36 (6.7) | |||
| Student | 33 (6.1) | |||
| Family work | 11 (2.0) | |||
| Informal/street-related work | 8 (1.5) | |||
| Unemployed, seeking work | 42 (7.8) | |||
| Unemployed, not seeking work | 11 (2.0) | |||
| Othere | 6 (1.2) | |||
| Relationship duration | 613 | 540 | 73 | < 0.001 |
| < 1 year | 82 (13.4) | 63 (11.7) | 19 (26.0) | |
| 1–2 years | 143 (23.3) | 116 (21.5) | 27 (37.0) | |
| 3–5 years | 142 (23.2) | 124 (23.0) | 18 (24.7) | |
| 6–9 years | 79 (12.9) | 74 (13.7) | 5 (6.9) | |
| 10 years or more | 167 (27.4) | 163 (30.2) | 4 (5.5) | |
| In a serodiscordant relationship before this study | 607 | 535 | 72 | 0.009 |
| No | 385 (63.4) | 351 (65.6) | 34 (47.2) | |
| Yes | 195 (32.1) | 161 (30.1) | 34 (47.2) | |
| Don’t know | 27 (4.4) | 23 (4.3) | 4 (5.6) |
Abbreviations: PP1 Positive Plus One Study
a This category includes participants who identified as a “trans man,” “trans woman,” “two-spirited man,” and participants who did not identify as any gender
b This category includes participants who identified as a “trans man,” “trans woman,” “two-spirited man,” “two-spirited woman,” “lesbian,” “bisexual man,” “bisexual woman,” and participants who did not identify as any gender and/or sexual orientation, did not believe in labels for gender and sexual orientation, or did not respond
c This category includes participants who identified as Arab/West Asian, East Asian, South Asian, South-East Asian, and other (the most common other response was “mixed”)
d Participants were able to select all response options that applied to them (i.e., participants were able to select more than one response option)
e Participants were not asked to specify what they meant by “other”