Results
REGRESSION
The mean age of participants was 32.9 years old (standard deviation – SD = 10.2); 44.3% were aged 25–34 years. Most participants (59.3%) were black or mixed-race. In total, 84.1% had disclosed their serostatus to someone other than health professionals; 63.9% reported moderate or severe mental health problems; 66.4% had used illicit substances in the last six months; 39.8% had already attempted suicide; 45.1% had experienced sexual violence; and 92% had experienced verbal violence for being TrTGW. Regarding gender affirmation, 88.5% agreed or strongly agreed that their appearance corresponded to their gender identity (Of the 113 participants, 83.2% (94/113) were located for the scheduling of the interview after nine months. Of these, 90.4% (85/94) agreed, but did not attend, even after multiple rescheduling attempts. Finally, 92.9% (79/85) actually participated in the interview, corresponding to 69.9% retention to the study. Of the 79 respondents, 72% (54/75) were from the intervention group and 66% (25/38) from the control group. About half of the interviews were face-to-face and the rest were via the Internet or by telephone.In the bivariate logistic regression model, retention at nine months was associated with: “response to the check telephone call at three months” (OR = 7.78; 95%CI: 2.96–20.44); “higher schooling level” (≥ 12 years of complete education) (OR = 3.53; 95%CI: 1.31–9.47); and “illicit drug use in the last six months” (OR = 0.4; 95%CI: 0.16–1.03) (In the final multivariate model, “contact at three months” (aOR = 6.15; 95%CI: 2.16–17.51) and “higher schooling level” (≥ 12 years) (aOR = 3.26; 95%CI: 1.02–10.42) remained associated with the outcome, adjusted by race/skin color, age under 35 years, and HIV serostatus disclosure. The pseudo R2 value was 0.1880 (