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Table 1 Characteristics of young people enrolled in the BUDDY study, overall and by HIV status (n = 534)

From: Associations between psychosocial wellbeing and experience of gender-based violence at community, household, and intimate-partner levels among a cross-sectional cohort of young people living with and without HIV during COVID-19 in Cape Town, South Africa

Characteristic

Total sample (N = 534)

Youth living with HIV (N = 214)

Youth living without HIV (N = 320)

p-value

 

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

 

Sociodemographic

Current age, mean (SD)

19.0 (3.0)

19.0 (3.2)

19.1 (3.0)

0.74

Age categories

    

13–14

63 (11.8%)

27 (12.6%)

36 (11.2%)

0.81

15–19

256 (47.9%)

104 (48.6%)

152 (47.5%)

 

20–25

215 (40.3%)

83 (38.8%)

132 (41.2%)

 

Sex

    

Women

373 (69.9%)

124 (57.9%)

249 (77.8%)

< 0.001

Men

159 (29.8%)

90 (42.1%)

69 (21.6%)

 

Black African race

532 (99.6%)

214 (100.0%)

318 (99.4%)

1.0

Primary language

    

IsiXhosa

524 (98.1%)

207 (96.7%)

317 (99.1%)

0.071

English

7 (1.3%)

4 (1.9%)

3 (0.9%)

 

Household type

    

Formal dwelling

331 (62.1%)

143 (66.8%)

188 (58.9%)

0.064

Informal dwelling

198 (37.1%)

71 (33.2%)

127 (39.8%)

 

Had a sexual partner during lockdown

261 (49.7%)

83 (39.0%)

178 (57.1%)

< 0.001

Lives with sexual partner

2 (0.4%)

1 (0.5%)

1 (0.3%)

1.00

NEET

168 (31.8%)

56 (26.3%)

112 (35.4%)

0.027

Worried about food, past month

274 (51.6%)

79 (37.1%)

195 (61.3%)

< 0.001

COVID-related stressors

Self-isolated most or all the time

236 (44.6%)

114 (53.5%)

122 (38.6%)

< 0.001

Less support since lockdown

136 (26.0%)

62 (29.1%)

74 (23.8%)

0.17

Life lonelier because of COVID-19

186 (35.8%)

55 (25.9%)

131 (42.5%)

< 0.001

Moderately or extremely concerned about COVID illness

366 (69.6%)

127 (59.6%)

239 (76.4%)

< 0.001

Exposure to 3 or more stressors

182 (35.4%)

64 (30.2%)

118 (39.1%)

0.038

Mental health

Clinically relevant depression (PHQ-9)

238 (45.2%)

102 (47.9%)

136 (43.5%)

0.32

Clinically relevant anxiety (GAD-2)

65 (12.4%)

29 (13.6%)

36 (11.5%)

0.47

Common mental disorders

247 (47.0%)

108 (50.7%)

139 (44.4%)

0.16

  1. SD = standard deviation; p-values based on t-test, pearson’s chi-square test, and fisher’s exact test
  2. NEET = not in education, employment, or training and includes participants ≥ 18 who are not in school and those < 18 who are not employed
  3. 2 participants (0.4%) selected “other” gender, 1 (0.2%) selected “coloured” race, 1 (0.2%) selected “white” race, 3 (0.6%) selected “Afrikaans” as primary language, and 4 (0.8%) selected “other” household type
  4. Mental health measures indicate probable mental health disorders based on non-clinical screening. Scores on PHQ-9 range from 1 to 27 with scores ≥ 5 indicating at least mild depression. Scores ≥ 3 on GAD-2 indicate generalized anxiety. Common mental disorders refer to the presence of clinically relevant depression or anxiety
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