Table 2 Comparison of characteristics among participants in different trajectory groups of anxiety and depression (n = 1023)
Characteristics | Anxiety | Depression | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Consistently low (n = 561) | Consistently moderate (n = 402) | High but bell-shaped (n = 60) | P | Consistently low (n = 621) | Consistently moderate (n = 321) | High but bell-shaped (n = 81) | P | |
Age, years | Â | Â | Â | 0.020 | Â | Â | Â | 0.769 |
 18–30 | 170 (30.3) | 138 (34.3) | 28 (46.7) |  | 195 (31.4) | 112 (34.9) | 29 (35.8) |  |
 31–50 | 339 (60.4) | 243 (60.4) | 29 (48.3) |  | 380 (61.2) | 184 (57.3) | 47 (58.0) |  |
  > 50 | 52 (9.3) | 21 (5.3) | 3 (5.0) |  | 46 (7.4) | 25 (7.8) | 5 (6.2) |  |
Educational level | Â | Â | Â | 0.530 | Â | Â | Â | 0.058 |
 High school or less | 110 (19.6) | 69 (17.2) | 13 (21.7) |  | 102 (16.4) | 72 (22.4) | 18 (22.2) |  |
 College and greater | 451 (80.4) | 333 (82.8) | 47 (78.3) |  | 519 (83.6) | 249 (77.6) | 63 (77.8) |  |
Monthly income, US$ |  |  |  | 0.023 |  |  |  |  < 0.001 |
  < 619 | 164 (29.2) | 148 (36.8) | 24 (40.0) |  | 176 (28.3) | 126 (39.3) | 34 (42.0) |  |
  ≥ 619 | 397 (70.8) | 254 (63.2) | 36 (60.0) |  | 445 (71.7) | 195 (60.7) | 47 (58.0) |  |
Psychological gender identity | Â | Â | Â | 0.007 | Â | Â | Â | 0.013 |
 Male | 553 (98.6) | 390 (97.0) | 55 (91.7) |  | 612 (98.6) | 310 (96.6) | 76 (93.8) |  |
 Female | 8 (1.4) | 12 (3.0) | 5 (8.3) |  | 9 (1.4) | 11 (3.4) | 5 (6.2) |  |
Marital status | Â | Â | Â | 0.045 | Â | Â | Â | 0.182 |
 Single | 285 (50.8) | 233 (58.0) | 40 (66.7) |  | 326 (52.5) | 190 (59.2) | 42 (51.9) |  |
 Married/cohabitation | 258 (46.0) | 161 (40.0) | 20 (33.3) |  | 480 (45.1) | 124 (38.6) | 35 (43.2) |  |
 Separated, divorced, or widowed | 18 (3.2) | 8 (2.0) | 0 (0.0) |  | 15 (2.4) | 7 (2.2) | 4 (4.9) |  |
Sexual role with men | Â | Â | Â | 0.004 | Â | Â | Â | 0.102 |
 Top | 182 (32.4) | 90 (22.4) | 15 (25.0) |  | 187 (30.1) | 86 (26.8) | 14 (17.2) |  |
 Bottom | 129 (23.0) | 131 (32.6) | 21 (35.0) |  | 156 (25.1) | 100 (31.2) | 25 (30.9) |  |
 Versatile | 246 (43.9) | 178 (44.3) | 24 (40.0) |  | 274 (44.1) | 132 (41.1) | 42 (51.9) |  |
 Oral | 4 (0.7) | 3 (0.7) | 0 (0.0) |  | 4 (0.7) | 3 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) |  |
No. of anal sex partners in the past three months | Â | Â | 0.103 | Â | Â | Â | 0.175 | |
  < 2 | 112 (20.0) | 59 (14.7) | 10 (16.7) |  | 121 (19.5) | 48 (15.0) | 12 (14.8) |  |
  ≥ 2 | 449 (80.0) | 343 (85.3) | 50 (83.3) |  | 500 (80.5) | 273 (85.0) | 69 (85.2) |  |
 CAI in the past three months | 445 (79.3) | 301 (74.9) | 49 (81.7) | 0.197 | 493 (79.4) | 235 (73.2) | 67 (82.7) | 0.051 |
 HIV knowledge | 403 (71.8) | 285 (70.9) | 40 (66.7) | 0.695 | 459 (73.9) | 218 (67.9) | 51 (63.0) | 0.037 |
 Baseline syphilis positivity | 48 (8.6) | 47 (11.8) | 7 (11.7) | 0.252 | 50 (8.1) | 42 (13.2) | 10 (12.5) | 0.036 |