Compassionate Love as a Predictor of Reduced HIV Disease Progression and Transmission Risk

Table 3

Compassionate love (CL giving, receiving, and self) as predictor of cumulative undetectable viral load (VL) and CD4 cell preservation over 4 years.

Predictor	Prediction to^a	Controlling for	Coefficient	T ratio	𝑛^b	𝑃^c
CL giving	Cumulative undetectable VL		0.011	1.055	156	.147
	CD4 cell preservation		−0.191	−0.552	156	.291
CL receiving	Cumulative undetectable VL		<0.001	0.023	168	.491
	CD4 cell preservation		−0.777	−0.824	168	.206
CL self	Cumulative undetectable VL		0.010	2.841	166	.003
		Substance use disorder	0.008	2.390	159	.009
		CL giving	0.012	3.068	152	.002
		CL receiving	0.002	0.470	164	.319
	CD4 cell preservation		0.495	1.220	166	.112
		Substance use disorder	0.424	1.049	159	.148
		Cumulative undetectable VL	0.017	0.080	166	.468
		CL giving	0.766	1.671	152	.048
		CL receiving	0.754	1.586	164	.057

aAll models are controlled for differences in age, gender, ethnicity, education, CD4 cells, and undetectable VL at entry.
bParticipants with missing data on CL, substance use disorder, VL and CD4 cells were excluded, DF = 𝑛−9.
cOne-tailed test.