Since we had the IDPs data from two consecutive years, we also conducted paired group t-tests within the IDP group on those two occasions.
Only factors significantly associated with HIV-1 infection in at least one group are presented; b Traditional occupation: agricultural worker and housewife; modern occupation: clerk, business woman/man, professional, soldier, student and other; * Factors with a significant risk difference between the IDP group and the no-IDP group according to the interaction test (log-likelihood ratio test).
The numbers of female and male participants in both IDPs and non-IDPs groups were almost equal.
The largest difference was that more than half of the IDPs group reported having witnessed violence toward property while only 4% of the non-IDPs group had.
There was a significantly higher percentage of Christian participants in the non-IDP group than in the IDPs, and a significantly larger percentage of IDPs participants had a higher level of education than non-IDPs participants.
The participants in the IDPs group were 19-81 years, with a mean age of 39 years (SD = 14.2), and participants in the non-IDPs group were 18-79 years, with a mean age of 43 years (SD = 16.2).
The distress mean scores for females were 1.66 (SD = 0.47) and for males were 1.56 ([ SD = 0.43). In the IDPs group, females had significantly higher distress levels than males (p < 0.001), where the distress mean scores were 1.78 [SD = 0.47] and 1.58 [SD = 0.44] respectively.
The event least commonly reported by IDPs was being injured in the conflict, while in the non-IDPs group the least experienced event was witnessing murder.
To further elaborate upon the theme of IDPs, our group has recently become more focused on order-upon-binding dynamics.
I spent a week organizing contacts to Congolese human rights organizations, midwives, community leaders in the IDP camps, church groups, and others who would offer an accurate narrative.
