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. 2022 Jul 16;21:97. doi: 10.1186/s12939-022-01699-0

Table 1.

Participant sociodemographic and background characteristics (N = 46)

M (SD) or %
Age (range 23 – 62 years) 48.9 (8.74)
Sex assigned at birth
 Female 21.7
 Male 78.3
 Sexual and/or gender minority status 32.6
 Transgender gender identity, gender fluid, gender non-conforming 4.3
 African American or Black (non-Latino/Hispanic) 76.1
 Latino or Hispanic 21.7
 Stable housing (has their own home or apartment, including funded by government programs or benefits) 47.8
 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES-R) score (range 0–14) 3.56 (3.33)
Indications of low socioeconomic status and extreme poverty
 Working full-time or part-time off-the-books or on-the-books 17.4
 Ran out of funds for necessities monthly or more in the past year 45.7
 Food insecurity often or sometimes in past year 84.8
 Engaged in transactional sex – past year 17.4
HIV-related factors
 Years since HIV diagnosis at enrollment (range 3.0—30.0 years) 18.6 (7.18)
 Median [Q1, Q3] 18.5 [13.3, 24.0]
 Took HIV medication in the past 100
 Times stopped/started HIV medication in the past (range 0—100 times) 10.6 (17.8)
 Longest duration of sustained HIV medication, in months (range 0–264 months) 45.0 (62.7)
Psychosocial risk and protective factors
 Alcohol use at a moderate-to-high-risk level 54.3
 Cannabis use at a moderate-to-high-risk level 60.9
 Cocaine or crack use at a moderate-to-high-risk level 63.0
 Use of other drugs (not including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine/crack) at a moderate-to-high-risk level 28.3
 Never injected drugs 87.0
 Injection drug use lifetime, but not in the past 3 months 6.5
 Injection drug use – past 3 months 6.5
 Participated in substance use treatment in the past 78.3
 Likely depression 21.7
 Likely anxiety 10.9
 Likely PTSD 34.8
HIV viral load
 HIV viral load level at enrollment (log10 transformed) 4.28 (0.970)
 Suppressed HIV viral load at 8- and/or 12- month follow-up assessment 40.0