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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 2
Survey findings about respondents' worry about AIDS and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)*
| Characteristic | Total, n = 928 (%) | Very worried, |
Very worried |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIDS, n = 917 (%) | p value | SARS, n = 863 (%) | p value | ||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 402 (45.3) | 20 (6.3) | 0.553 | 10 (2.0) | 0.006 |
| Female | 526 (54.7) | 25 (5.0) | 35 (8.0) | ||
| Race/ethnicity | |||||
| White | 579 (54.1) | 8 (1.3) | 13 (2.5) | 0.028 | |
| Asian | 50 (5.0) | 2 (3.5) | 4 (20.0) | ||
| Black | 133 (18.9) | 15 (8.4) | 11 (7.2) | ||
| Hispanic | 131 (19.5) | 19 (15.4) | 15 (8.3) | ||
| Other | 21 (2.6) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (3.8) | ||
| Age, y | |||||
| >65 | 147 (11.9) | 4 (1.2) | 10 (5.4) | ||
| 55–64 | 125 (12.4) | 3 (1.7) | 6 (5.5) | ||
| 45–54 | 185 (18.2) | 8 (7.5) | 6 (7.4) | ||
| 35–44 | 215 (20.7) | 11 (4.5) | 10 (5.5) | ||
| 25–34 | 185 (25.8) | 16 (11.0) | 7 (2.6) | ||
| 18–24 | 61 (11.0) | 3 (1.1) | 0.006 | 5 (5.9) | 0.723 |
| Educational attainment | |||||
| Graduate work | 173 (13.8) | 1 (1.0) | <0.0001 | 4 (1.7) | 0.250 |
| College degree | 306 (30.0) | 5 (2.0) | 13 (4.9) | ||
| Some college | 172 (21.4) | 7 (1.4) | 11 (7.2) | ||
| High school/general education diploma | 186 (25.2) | 16 (10.4) | 8 (3.6) | ||
| Less than high school | 89 (9.6) | 14 (18.9) | 9 (13.3) | ||
| Marital status | |||||
| Married | 409 (52.9) | 15 (4.4) | 0.627 | 13 (5.5) | 0.778 |
| Divorced/separated/widowed | 214 (15.8) | 10 (6.0) | 14 (5.4) | ||
| Never married/unmarried couple | 298 (31.1) | 19 (6.8) | 15 (4.0) | ||
| Household income at baseline | |||||
| >$75,000 | 262 (33.8) | 4 (1.6) | <0.001 | 10 (5.9) | 0.197 |
| $40,000–$74,999 | 217 (27.9) | 6 (4.2) | 6 (1.6) | ||
| $20,000–$39,999 | 158 (23.2) | 11 (4.7) | 10 (6.7) | ||
| <$20,000 | 130 (15.2) | 18 (22.8) | 11 (8.2) | ||
| Total | 928 (100) | 45 (5.6) | 45 (5.2) | ||
*Among those who had heard at least something about AIDS (n = 917) and SARS (n = 863), respectively.
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