Table 1 Demographic variables
Variable | N | Percentage (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
Mental health | |||
 Anxiety | None/Mild (≤14) | 1829 | 80.1% |
Moderate/Severe (> 14) | 454 | 19.9% | |
 Depression | None/Mild (< 10) | 1985 | 85.6% |
Moderate/Severe (≥10) | 334 | 14.4% | |
Sociodemographic | |||
 Age | 18–25 | 538 | 17.5% |
26–35 | 713 | 23.2% | |
36–45 | 695 | 22.6% | |
46+ | 1124 | 36.6% | |
 Gender identity | Transgender | 191 | 6.3% |
Not transgender | 2846 | 93.7% | |
 Country | Scotland | 1474 | 47.9% |
Wales | 491 | 16.0% | |
Northern Ireland | 232 | 7.5% | |
Republic of Ireland | 880 | 28.6% | |
 Ethnicity | White | 2974 | 97.0% |
Black | 5 | 0.2% | |
Asian | 38 | 1.2% | |
Mixed / other | 48 | 1.6% | |
 Sexual Orientation | Gay | 2443 | 80.1% |
Bisexual | 575 | 18.8% | |
Straight/other | 33 | 1.1% | |
 Educated post-secondary | No | 1165 | 38.9% |
Yes | 1831 | 61.1% | |
 Employment | Employed/ self employed | 2137 | 73.9% |
Other (including retired, carer, student) | 755 | 26.1% | |
 Relationship status | Single | 1869 | 61.0% |
Regular Male Partner | 643 | 21.0% | |
Civil Partnership / Married Man | 247 | 10.0% | |
Regular Female Partner | 306 | 10.0% | |
 Any Disability | No | 1848 | 67.6% |
Yes | 887 | 32.4% | |
 Any financial worries | Occasionally/Never | 1659 | 57.0% |
Sometimes - All of the time | 1249 | 43.0% | |
 Nearest gay venue with easy reach | Too far | 494 | 17.0% |
4 | 319 | 11.0% | |
3 | 515 | 17.8% | |
2 | 670 | 23.11% | |
Nearby | 659 | 22.7% | |
Don’t know | 242 | 8.3% | |
 HIV status | HIV positive | 222 | 8.3% |
HIV negative | 2100 | 78.1% | |
Untested | 367 | 13.6% | |
Behavioural | |||
 Frequency of gay website use | At least once a day | 959 | 41.4% |
Every few days / weekly | 764 | 33.0% | |
Monthly or less | 274 | 11.8% | |
Never / stopped using | 319 | 13.8% | |
 Frequency of gay App use | At least once a day | 1107 | 48.0% |
Every few days / weekly | 464 | 20.1% | |
Monthly or less | 149 | 6.5% | |
Never / stopped using | 587 | 25.4% | |
 Frequency of gay scene use | 4–5 times a week | 23 | 0.8% |
2–3 times per week | 335 | 11.5% | |
1–2 times per week | 145 | 5.0% | |
Once a month or less | 903 | 31.1% | |
Never | 1497 | 51.6% | |
 Condomless sex | No | 1734 | 64.1% |
Yes | 972 | 35.9% | |
 Alcohol use | Safe | 1398 | 65.3% |
Hazardous | 743 | 34.7% | |
 Chemsex use in last 12 months | No | 2035 | 87.6% |
Yes | 289 | 12.4% | |
Minority stressors | |||
 Stigma (higher score = higher stigma) 0–80 | Mean (SD) | 23.4 (11.2) | |
 Outness | Out to no one | 410 | 14.1% |
Out to some or all | 2501 | 85.9% | |
 Any experience of relationship abuse in last 12 months | No 2176 | 1708 | 78.5% |
Yes | 468 | 21.5% | |
Resilience | |||
 Emotional competency | Mean (SD) | 3.3 (0.9) | |
 Sense of coherence | Mean (SD) | 40.4 (13.4) | |