Volume 11, Number 11—November 2005
Dispatch
Social Factors Associated with AIDS and SARS
Don C. Des Jarlais*
, Jennifer Stuber†, Melissa Tracy‡, Susan Tross*, and Sandro Galea‡
, Jennifer Stuber†, Melissa Tracy‡, Susan Tross*, and Sandro Galea‡
Table 1
Survey findings of respondents' knowledge about AIDS and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) (N = 928)*
| Characteristic | Total, n (% ) | Poorly informed, |
Poorly informed, |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIDS, n (%) | p value | SARS, n (%) | p value | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 402 (45.3) | 20 (8.0) | 0.016 | 67 (21.7) | 0.716 |
| Female | 526 (54.7) | 13 (2.5) | 102 (20.2) | ||
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| White | 579 (54.1) | 19 (2.9) | 0.054 | 79 (14.6) | <0.0001 |
| Asian | 50 (5.0) | 5 (16.3) | 5 (20.8) | ||
| Black | 133 (18.9) | 3 (5.7) | 30 (17.5) | ||
| Hispanic | 131 (19.5) | 3 (6.4) | 45 (40.6) | ||
| Other | 21 (2.6) | 2 (11.9) | 8 (36.1) | ||
| Age, y | |||||
| >65 | 147 (11.9) | 12 (6.6) | 52 (37.8) | ||
| 55–64 | 125 (12.4) | 5 (9.6) | 24 (24.9) | ||
| 45–54 | 185 (18.2) | 0 (0.0) | 18 (15.7) | ||
| 35–44 | 215 (20.7) | 4 (1.8) | 30 (14.7) | ||
| 25–34 | 185 (25.8) | 7 (3.5) | 29 (19.2) | ||
| 18–24 | 61 (11.0) | 4 (16.3) | 12 (19.6) | 0.006 | |
| Educational status | |||||
| Graduate work | 173 (13.8) | 2 (3.3) | 0.460 | 10 (12.8) | <0.0001 |
| College degree | 306 (30.0) | 7 (4.7) | 32 (12.8) | ||
| Some college | 172 (21.4) | 2 (1.8) | 23 (17.4) | ||
| High school/general education diploma | 186 (25.2) | 14 (8.3) | 62 (27.2) | ||
| Less than high school | 89 (9.6) | 8 (7.0) | 41 (48.9) | ||
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 409 (52.9) | 14 (5.6) | 0.907 | 69 (22.4) | 0.028 |
| Divorced/separated/widowed | 214 (15.8) | 14 (5.2) | 56 (28.5) | ||
| Never married/unmarried couple | 298 (31.3) | 5 (4.1) | 43 (14.7) | ||
| Household income at baseline | |||||
| >$75,000 | 262 (33.8) | 4 (1.3) | 0.062 | 22 (12.3) | 0.002 |
| $40,000–$74,999 | 217 (27.9) | 3 (4.1) | 24 (12.7) | ||
| $20,000–$39,999 | 158 (23.2) | 9 (7.0) | 42 (28.5) | ||
| <$20,000 | 130 (15.2) | 8 (9.6) | 47 (36.8) | ||
| Total | 928 (100.0) | 33 (5.0) | 169 (20.9) | ||
*Poorly informed, respondents reported knowing "nothing" or "little" about the disease.
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