Self-reported depression and social support are associated with egocentric network characteristics of HIV-infected women of color

Messer, Lynne C.; Quinlivan, E. Byrd; Adimora, Adaora; Roytburd, Katya

doi:10.1186/s12905-020-00937-3

Table 4 Unadjusted and adjusted beta coefficients (95% confidence intervals (95% CI)) for association between egocentric social network characteristics, all depression and psychiatric symptoms subscale (PHQ 4) (n = 87)

From: Self-reported depression and social support are associated with egocentric network characteristics of HIV-infected women of color

Depression symptoms (Complete PHQ 9)
	Unadjusted models		Adjusted models^a
Network characteristic	Coefficient	95% CI	Coefficient	95% CI
Functional network characteristics
Advice tie count	−0.62	−1.40, 0.17	− 0.57	− 1.36, 0.22
Emotional tie count	− 0.65	− 1.46, 0.15	− 0.58	− 1.41, 0.24
Financial tie count	− 1.15	− 2.14, − 0.15	−1.17	−2.15, − 0.18
Transportation tie count	− 0.51	− 1.49, 0.47	−0.59	− 1.57, 0.38
Structural network characteristics
Family tie count	−0.69	−1.60, 0.23	−0.72	− 1.66, 0.22
Non-family tie count	−0.47	−1.04, 0.09	− 0.53	−1.08, 0.03
Alter knows ego’s HIV status	−0.63	−1.40, 0.15	− 0.59	− 1.37, 0.19
Alter’s positive HIV status	−2.32	−4.57, − 0.07	− 2.25	−4.49, − 0.01
Total network size	− 0.31	− 0.89, 0.27	− 0.30	−0.69, 0.28
< Daily talk - primary	2.18	0.95, 5.30	1.59	−1.48, 4.65
< Daily talk - secondary	−1.62	−4.47, 1.23	−1.08	−3.88, 1.73
Psychiatric symptoms subscale (Estimated from 4 PHQ 9 questions)
	Unadjusted models		Adjusted models
	Coefficient	95% CI	Coefficient	95% CI
Functional network characteristics
Advice tie count	−0.39	− 0.81, 0.03	− 0.35	− 0.78, 0.08
Emotional tie count	− 0.41	− 0.84, − 0.03	−0.36	− 0.81, 0.09
Financial tie count	−0.67	−1.20, − 0.13	−0.65	− 1.19, − 0.11
Transportation tie count	−0.42	− 0.95, 0.10	−0.44	− 0.97, 0.09
Structural network characteristics
Family tie count	−0.53	− 1.01, − 0.04	−0.53	− 1.04, − 0.01
Non-family tie count	0.14	− 0.45, 0.17	−0.14	− 0.45, 0.17
Alter knows ego’s HIV status	−0.40	− 0.81, − 0.02	−0.36	− 0.79, 0.07
Alter’s positive HIV status	−0.64	−1.88, 0.59	− 0.62	− 1.87, 0.64
Total network size	− 0.22	− 0.54, 0.08	− 0.22	−0.54, 0.10
< Daily talk - primary	1.46	−0.21, 3.12	1.19	−0.49, 2.87
< Daily talk - secondary	−0.92	−2.44, 0.60	− 0.72	− 2.27, 0.83

In social network terms, “ego” is the person responding to the survey and alter is the person who has been named or identified by the ego; ^a unadjusted models include only the independent and dependent variables; models adjusted for ego’s continuous age, categorical education, dichotomous insurance status

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