The CHAIN project was a longitudinal cohort study of people living with HIV in New York City, which was recruited in 1994 from a large number of medical care and social service agencies serving HIV in New York City. This subset of data pertain to the sixth round of interviews.
data(CHAIN)A data.frame with 532 observations on the following 8 variables.
log_viruslog of self reported viral load level, where zero represents an undetectable level.
ageage at time of the interview
incomeannual family income in 10 intervals
healthya continuous scale of physical health with a theoretical range between 0 and 100 where better health is associated with higher scale values
mentala binary measure of poor mental health ( 1=Yes, 0=No )
damageordered interval for the CD4 count, which is an indicator of how much damage HIV has caused to the immune system
treatmenta three-level ordered variable: 0=Not currently taking HAART (Highly Active AntiretRoviral Therapy) 1=taking HAART but nonadherent, 2=taking HAART and adherent
A missing value in the log virus load level was assigned to individuals who either could not recall their viral load level, did not have a viral load test in the six month preceding the interview, or reported their viral loads as "good" or "bad".
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