TABLE 1.
Sociodemographic and clinical profile based on known HIV status in people with recent onset psychosis.
| Variable | Categories | Total (n = 294) |
HIV negative (n = 227) |
HIV positive (n = 62) |
p | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Age categories (years) | 18–24 | 86 | 29.3 | 74 | 32.6 | 11 | 17.7 | 0.07 |
| 25–49 | 186 | 63.3 | 137 | 60.4 | 46 | 74.2 | - | |
| 50 + | 22 | 7.5 | 16 | 7.0 | 5 | 8.1 | - | |
| Gender | Female | 92 | 31.3 | 53 | 23.3 | 37 | 59.7 | < 0.001 |
| Male | 202 | 68.7 | 174 | 76.7 | 25 | 40.3 | ||
| Marital status | Not married | 277 | 94.2 | 213 | 93.8 | 60 | 96.8 | 0.37 |
| Married, widowed or divorced | 17 | 5.8 | 14 | 6.2 | 2 | 3.2 | - | |
| Educational level | Less than tertiary (Grade 12 or less) | 243 | 82.7 | 185 | 81.5 | 54 | 87.1 | 0.30 |
| Tertiary | 51 | 17.3 | 42 | 18.5 | 8 | 12.9 | - | |
| Employment status | Employed | 50 | 17.0 | 41 | 18.1 | 9 | 14.5 | 0.01 |
| Unemployed | 206 | 70.1 | 164 | 72.2 | 38 | 61.3 | - | |
| Disability grant | 38 | 12.9 | 22 | 9.7 | 15 | 24.2 | - | |
| Current substance use | No alcohol or cannabis | 137 | 46.6 | 107 | 47.1 | 29 | 46.8 | 0.96 |
| Alcohol and/or cannabis | 157 | 53.4 | 120 | 52.9 | 33 | 53.2 | - | |
| Family history | Psychosis | 24 | 8.2 | 16 | 7.0 | 7 | 11.3 | 0.06 |
| Nonpsychotic mental illness | 47 | 16.0 | 42 | 18.5 | 5 | 8.1 | - | |
| Substance use disorder | 18 | 6.1 | 11 | 4.8 | 7 | 11.3 | - | |
| None | 205 | 69.7 | 158 | 69.6 | 43 | 69.4 | - | |
| Duration of untreated psychosis (months) | 0–11 | 145 | 50.2 | 109 | 49.1 | 33 | 53.2 | 0.57 |
| 12 + | 144 | 49.8 | 113 | 50.9 | 29 | 46.8 | - | |
| HIV status | Negative | 227 | 78.5 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Positive | 62 | 21.5 | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Unknown | 5 | 0.01 | - | - | - | - | - | |