McDaid and Hart BMC Public Health 2010, 10:798 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/10/798 Page 3 of 10 Table 1 Sample characteristics (N = 1318) Table 1 Sample characteristics (N = 1318) (Continued) Demographics Survey location Edinburgh Glasgow Survey venue Bar Sauna Sexual orientation Gay Bisexual Straight Age 16-25 years 26+ years Area of residence Glasgow Edinburgh Rest of Scotland Rest of UK Overseas Ethnicity White (UK, Irish or other) Minority ethnic group* Qualifications Secondary Further/vocational Degree/post-graduate Frequency of gay scene use Once month or less 2/3 times a month 1/2 times a week 4/5 times a week HIV treatment optimism 1† Disagree Agree HIV treatment optimism 2† Disagree Agree Sexual Health HIV test in the past 12 months No Yes Other sexually transmitted infection (STI) test in the past 12 months No Yes HIV status (oral fluid specimen result) HIV-negative HIV-positive Did not provide oral fluid specimen‡ n 559 759 % 42.2 57.6 1243 94.3 75 5.7 1180 90.1 113 8.6 17 1.3 1272 96.7 44 3.3 378 926 538 449 204 67 27 195 460 571 327 354 432 167 938 327 1056 83.5 209 16.5 667 618 711 599 51.9 48.1 54.3 45.7 1077 81.9 46 3.5 192 14.6 29.0 71.0 41.9 34.9 15.9 5.2 2.1 15.9 37.5 46.6 25.5 27.7 33.8 13.0 74.2 25.8 Sexual Risk Behaviour in the past 12 months Number of sexual partners Less than 10 10 or more Number of anal sex partners Less than 10 10 or more Number of unprotected anal intercourse (UAI) partners 0/1 partner 2 or more partners UAI with casual partners No Yes UAI with partners of unknown/discordant HIV status No Yes STI No Yes 927 348 72.7 27.3 1126 89.3 135 10.7 1127 87.6 160 12.4 1023 79.5 264 20.5 966 321 75.1 24.9 1202 91.7 109 8.3 *Black African, Black Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Arab, Latin American & Other/Mixed. † HIV treatment optimism 1 - ‘I am less worried about HIV infection now that treatments have improved’, HIV treatment optimism 2 - ‘I believe that new drug therapies make people with HIV less infectious’. ‡ An additional 4 samples were not returned from the laboratory. exclusively indicators of high risk behaviour). The likeli- hood of obtaining free condoms was lower among men who identified as straight, who were aged 26+ years or who resided in areas of the UK other than Scotland. The likelihood of accessing sexual health information via gay venues or the Internet (which were combined for these analyses) was higher among men surveyed in saunas, men from minority ethnic groups, men with further and higher educational qualifications, but lower among men who did not provide oral fluid samples. The likelihood of talking to an outreach worker was lower among men aged 26+ years and men who lived in the rest of Scotland (compared with Glasgow). The likeli- hood of participating in one to one or group counselling was higher among men who agreed with the HIV treat- ment optimism statement, ‘I believe that new drug therapies make people with HIV less infectious’. The likelihood of accessing sexual health information or par- ticipating in counselling was higher among HIV-positive than HIV-negative men, but there were no differences in the proportions reporting obtaining free condoms or talking to an outreach worker, or between diagnosed and undiagnosed HIV-positive men. Almost exclusively, the likelihood of contact with HIV prevention activities was higher among men who reported more sexual part- ners and any of the sexual risk behaviours. A notable exception was UAI with partners of unknown/