Effectiveness of Couple-Based HIV Counseling and Testing for Women Substance Users and Their Primary Male Partners: A Randomized Trial

Table 3

Baseline characteristics of participants by treatment condition.

	Couples-based		Women-only relationship-		Control: NIDA standard			Fisher’s exact; test
	HIV-CT (𝑛=110)		focused HIV-CT (𝑛=104)		HIV-CT (𝑛=116)		F value
	𝑛	%	𝑛	%	𝑛	%		P value
Female characteristics
Race/ethnicity								.08
African American	45	40.9	32	30.8	35	30.2
Hispanic	56	50.9	51	49.0	64	55.2
White/other	9	8.2	21	20.2	17	14.6
Unemployed	88	80.0	89	85.6	87	75.0		.15
Completed high school	52	47.3	52	50.0	54	46.6		.89
Homeless^a	14/109	12.8	17/104	16.4	16/116	13.8		.77
Ever diagnosed with STI^b	60/103	58.3	45/98	45.9	65/113	57.5		.15
Traded sex last 3 months	28	25.5	21	20.2	29	25.0		.61
Ever injected illicit drugs	47	42.7	53	51.0	57	50.9		.39
Age (yrs)^†		38.83 (8.6)		37.63 (8.3)		38.67 (8.3)	0.65^‡	.52^‡
HIV transmission risk^†		0.96 (1.76)		0.99 (1.73)		0.86 (1.45)	0.21^‡	.81^‡
Couple characteristics
Marital status								.32
Married, legal	25	22.7	27	26.0	33	28.5
Married, common law	73	66.4	64	61.5	77	66.4
Not married	12	10.9	13	12.5	6	5.2
Trying to conceive	21	19.1	20	19.2	16	13.8		.48
Perceived closeness	77	70.0	77	74.0	83	71.6		.81
Condom use last 3 months	26	23.6	25	24.0	22	19.0		.59
HIV serodiscordant	8	7.3	8	7.7	6	5.2		.73
Prob (%) male HIV positive^†a	109	16.2	104	17.6	116	14.9	0.39^‡	.68
Relationship duration (yrs)^†c	108	7.0 (7.5)	104	7.5 (7.5)	116	8.3 (7.3)	0.86^‡	.42

†Mean and standard deviation given.
^‡Welch’s ANOVA F statistic and P value.
^aVariable has 1 missing response.
^bVariable has 16 missing responses.
^cVariable has 2 missing responses.