Table 1.
Sociodemographic, health-seeking, and behavioral characteristics of trans Amigas cohort by randomization group, São Paulo, Brazil
| Respondent characteristics | Overall (n = 113) |
Intervention (n = 75; 66.4%) |
Control (n = 38; 33.6%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socio-demographic characteristics | ||||||
| Age (mean, SD) | 32.9 | 10.2 | 32.1 | 10.0 | 34.6 | 10.6 |
| Education | ||||||
| Finished primary or less | 41 | 36.3 | 25 | 61.0 | 16 | 39.0 |
| Secondary incomplete | 32 | 28.3 | 20 | 62.5 | 12 | 37.5 |
| Completed secondary | 40 | 35.4 | 30 | 75.0 | 10 | 25.0 |
| Living in poverty (earned ≤ R$800/month) | 34 | 30.1 | 27 | 79.4 | 7 | 20.6 |
| Employment status | ||||||
| Self-employed | 51 | 45.1 | 36 | 70.6 | 15 | 29.4 |
| Employed (with or w/out work card) | 19 | 16.8 | 10 | 52.6 | 9 | 47.4 |
| Student/retired/not consistently working | 43 | 38.1 | 29 | 67.4 | 14 | 32.6 |
| Partnership status | ||||||
| Married/living together | 42 | 37.2 | 32 | 76.2 | 10 | 23.8 |
| Single | 71 | 62.8 | 43 | 60.6 | 28 | 39.4 |
| Self-identified skin color | ||||||
| White | 36 | 31.9 | 25 | 69.4 | 11 | 30.6 |
| Black | 13 | 11.5 | 7 | 53.9 | 6 | 46.2 |
| Mixed race (parda) | 54 | 47.8 | 37 | 68.5 | 17 | 31.5 |
| Asian (amarela) | 2 | 1.8 | 2 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Indigenous | 8 | 7.1 | 4 | 50.0 | 4 | 50.0 |
| Living situation | ||||||
| Stable housing | 76 | 67.3 | 52 | 68.4 | 24 | 31.6 |
| Unstable housing (SRO, staying with others, shelter, homeless) | 37 | 32.7 | 23 | 63.2 | 14 | 36.8 |
| Legal name on document? | ||||||
| Yes | 29 | 25.7 | 20 | 69.0 | 9 | 31.0 |
| No | 72 | 63.7 | 47 | 65.3 | 25 | 34.7 |
| In process | 12 | 10.6 | 8 | 66.7 | 4 | 33.3 |
| Access to health care | ||||||
| Accessed primary care in past year? | 102 | 90.3 | 67 | 65.7 | 35 | 34.3 |
| Accessed HIV care in past year? | 92 | 90.2 | 60 | 65.2 | 32 | 34.8 |
| Accessed gender transition care in past year? | 26 | 25.5 | 19 | 73.1 | 7 | 26.9 |
| ART status at baseline | ||||||
| Yes—currently on ART | 72 | 75.8 | 48 | 67.7 | 24 | 33.3 |
| Had started but not on currently | 18 | 18.9 | 13 | 72.2 | 5 | 27.8 |
| Never on ART | 5 | 5.3 | 3 | 60.0 | 2 | 40.0 |
| Behavioral characteristics | ||||||
| Number of sexual partners in the last 6 months | ||||||
| 0–1 | 28 | 24.8 | 20 | 71.4 | 8 | 28.6 |
| 2–9 | 31 | 27.4 | 17 | 54.8 | 14 | 45.2 |
| 10 or more | 54 | 47.8 | 38 | 70.4 | 16 | 29.6 |
| Gender of partners | ||||||
| Cismen | 112 | 99.1 | 74 | 66.1 | 38 | 33.9 |
| Ciswomen | 14 | 12.4 | 8 | 57.1 | 6 | 42.9 |
| Transwomen or travestis | 11 | 9.7 | 7 | 63.6 | 4 | 36.4 |
| Transmen | 6 | 5.3 | 3 | 50.0 | 3 | 50.0 |
| Non-binary/gender non-conforming | 4 | 3.5 | 2 | 50.0 | 2 | 50.0 |
| Satisfaction with sex life | ||||||
| Unsatisfied | 16 | 14.2 | 8 | 50.0 | 8 | 50.0 |
| Neutral | 27 | 23.9 | 19 | 70.3 | 8 | 29.6 |
| Satisfied | 70 | 62.0 | 48 | 68.6 | 22 | 31.4 |
| Alcohol use | ||||||
| Hazardous alcohol use | 59 | 52.21 | 40 | 67.80 | 19 | 32.20 |
| No hazardous alcohol use | 54 | 47.79 | 35 | 64.81 | 19 | 35.19 |
Overall column provides column percentages; Intervention and control columns present row percentages to facilitate assessment of differences in participant characteristics by randomization group