Table 1 Socio-demographic, sexual behavioral, peer education, and HIV risk perception characteristics comparing participants who had HIV testing to those who had not in the past 12 months among three key populations in China (N = 1188)
Variables | HIV testing in the past 12Â months | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
MSM (N = 419) | FSWs (N = 400) | DUs (N = 369) | |||||||
No n (%) | Yes n (%) | p | No n (%) | Yes n (%) | p | No n (%) | Yes n (%) | p | |
Gender | |||||||||
 Male | 127 (100.0) | 292 (100.0) | – | – | – |  | 75 (45.7) | 148 (72.2) |  < 0.001 |
 Female | – | – | 93 (100.0) | 307 (100.0) |  | 89 (54.3) | 57 (27.8) | ||
Age | Â | ||||||||
 18–25 | 72 (56.7) | 154 (52.7) | 0.690 | 18 (19.4) | 19 (6.2) |  < 0.001 | 20 (12.2) | 84 (41.0) |  < 0.001 |
 26–35 | 29 (22.8) | 79 (27.1) | 36 (38.7) | 87 (28.3) | 37 (22.6) | 57 (27.8) | |||
 36–45 | 14 (11.0) | 37 (12.7) | 15 (16.1) | 146 (47.6) | 54 (32.9) | 29 (14.1) | |||
 46 or older | 12 (9.4) | 22 (7.5) | 24 (25.8) | 55 (17.9) | 53 (32.3) | 35 (17.1) | |||
Duration of local residence | |||||||||
 2 years or less | 43 (33.9) | 81 (27.7) | 0.207 | 49 (52.7) | 218 (71.0) | 0.001 | 16 (9.8) | 32 (15.6) | 0.097 |
 More than 2 years | 84 (66.1) | 211 (72.3) | 44 (47.3) | 89 (29.0) | 148 (90.2) | 173 (84.4) | |||
Education level | |||||||||
 Middle school or lower | 23 (18.1) | 33 (11.3) | 0.016 | 57 (61.3) | 250 (81.4) |  < 0.001 | 36 (22.0) | 50 (24.4) |  < 0.001 |
 High school | 33 (26.0) | 54 (18.5) | 19 (20.4) | 46 (15.0) | 86 (52.4) | 44 (21.5) | |||
 College or higher | 71 (55.9) | 205 (70.2) | 17 (18.3) | 11 (3.6) | 42 (25.6) | 111 (54.1) | |||
Monthly income (RMB)a | |||||||||
 3000 or less | 57 (44.9) | 115 (39.4) | 0.483 | 50 (53.8) | 227 (73.9) | 0.001 | 93 (56.7) | 96 (46.8) | 0.021 |
 3001–5000 | 37 (29.1) | 86 (29.5) | 26 (28.0) | 50 (16.3) | 38 (23.2) | 75 (36.6) | |||
 5001 or higher | 33 (26.0) | 91 (31.2) | 17 (18.3) | 30 (9.8) | 33 (20.1) | 34 (16.6) | |||
Marital status | |||||||||
 Single | 95 (74.8) | 227 (77.7) | 0.626b | 30 (32.3) | 51 (16.6) | 0.004 | 75 (45.7) | 161 (78.5) |  < 0.001 |
 Married/co-habitation | 28 (22.0) | 53 (18.2) | 53 (57.0) | 208 (67.8) | 72 (43.9) | 38 (18.5) | |||
 Divorced/widowed/segregated | 4 (3.1) | 12 (4.1) | 10 (10.8) | 48 (15.6) | 17 (10.4) | 6 (2.9) | |||
Sexual orientation | |||||||||
 Gay | 57 (44.9) | 203 (69.5) |  < 0.001 |  |  |  |  |  |  |
 Other | 70 (55.1) | 89 (30.5) |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
Types of drugs used | |||||||||
 Single |  |  |  |  |  |  | 119 (72.6) | 146 (71.2) | 0.776 |
 Multiple |  |  |  |  |  |  | 45 (27.4) | 59 (28.8) | |
Injected drug in the past month | |||||||||
 No |  |  |  |  |  |  | 160 (97.6) | 193 (94.1) | 0.110 |
 Yes |  |  |  |  |  |  | 4 (2.4) | 12 (5.9) | |
Condomless sex (past month) | |||||||||
 No | 90 (72.4) | 211 (72.3) | 0.970 | 42 (45.2) | 149 (48.5) | 0.568 | 106 (64.6) | 89 (43.4) |  < 0.001 |
 Yes | 35 (27.6) | 81 (27.7) | 51 (54.8) | 158 (51.5) | 58 (35.4) | 116 (56.6) | |||
Condom breakage or slippage (past month) | |||||||||
 No | 115 (90.6) | 265 (90.8) | 0.948 | 38 (40.9) | 123 (40.1) | 0.891 | 109 (66.5) | 133 (64.9) | 0.750 |
 Yes | 12 (9.4) | 27 (9.2) | 55 (59.1) | 184 (59.9) | 55 (33.5) | 72 (35.1) | |||
Peer education | |||||||||
 No | 86 (67.7) | 135 (46.2) |  < 0.001 | 62 (66.7) | 96 (31.3) |  < 0.001 | 55 (33.5) | 25 (12.2) |  < 0.001 |
 Yes | 41 (32.3) | 157 (53.8) | 31 (33.3) | 211 (68.7) | 109 (66.5) | 180 (87.8) | |||
HIV risk perception | |||||||||
 No | 65 (51.2) | 88 (30.1) |  < 0.001 | 67 (72.0) | 189 (61.6) | 0.005 | 125 (76.2) | 69 (33.7) |  < 0.001 |
 Moderate | 31 (24.4) | 92 (31.5) | 18 (19.4) | 44 (14.3) | 24 (14.6) | 88 (42.9) | |||
 High | 31 (24.4) | 112 (38.4) | 8 (8.6) | 74 (24.1) | 15 (9.1) | 48 (23.4) | |||