The Prevalence of Undiagnosed HIV Infection in Those Who Decline HIV Screening in an Urban Emergency Department

Table 2

Reason for declining an HIV test.

	Total	Age		Race*		Gender
Reason	𝑁=600; %	<35 years; 𝑛=256; %	≥35 years; 𝑛=344; %	White; 𝑛=244; %	Non-white; 𝑛=356; %	Male; 𝑛=215; %	Female; 𝑛=385; %
Not at risk	49.2	54.5	45.5	40.3	62.3	46.3	50.9
Recently tested (but more than 3 months prior)	14.2	12.6	15.5	17.5	9.4	13.6	14.6
Would rather be tested somewhere else	3.0	2.8	3.2	3.1	2.9	2.3	3.4
Afraid to get result	2.3	3.1	1.8	3.4	0.8	2.8	2.1
No time in the ED	0.8	0.4	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.8
No reason given	26.7	22.8	29.7	31.3	20.1	30.8	24.4
Other	3.7	3.9	3.5	3.7	3.7	3.3	3.9

* 𝑃<.001.