# Data from: Understanding PrEP: Perceptions and Misconceptions Amongst Men Who Have Sex With Men in Upstate South Carolina

The tables and figures from the article “Understanding PrEP: Perceptions and Misconceptions Amongst Men Who Have Sex With Men in Upstate South Carolina,” published in Journal of the American Medical Student Association (JAMSA) on February 12, 2026, as separate files: each table as a CSV file and each figure as the image in the accepted manuscript.

- Data record: https://conductscience.org/data/records/prep-perceptions-south-carolina
- Article: https://conductscience.org/articles/amsa-journal/v1/i1/understanding-prep-perceptions-and-misconceptions-amongst-men-who-have-sex-with-men-in-upstate-south-carolina
- Version: 1.0.0, released September 26, 2026

## Files

| File | Contents |
|---|---|
| `table-1.csv` | Table 1: Characteristics of study participants (n=28) |
| `table-2.csv` | Table 2: Correlations found between study variables |
| `table-3.csv` | Table 3: Correlations found between study variables |
| `table-4.csv` | Table 4: Correlations found between study variables & interventions |
| `figure-1.png` | Figure 1: Experienced or Perceived Barriers to PrEP Use (%) |
| `figure-2.png` | Figure 2: Factors That Would Increase PrEP Use (%) |

`METHODS.md` explains how the files were made, `data_dictionary.csv` describes each data file, `CITATION.cff` gives the citation and `MANIFEST.json` lists every file's size and SHA-256.

## Reading the tables

Each CSV keeps the table's rows and cells as printed, including header rows, section rows and footnote markers. Values were not retyped, recalculated or reformatted.

`table-1.csv` has merged cells or section rows, so some rows have fewer cells than the header. Read it alongside the article.

## License

CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), the same license as the article. Credit the authors and cite this dataset and the article when you reuse the files. `LICENSE` has the full legal code.

## Citation

Golder, J., Zanetti-Weeks, C., Lagerberg, E., & Jones, D. (2026). Data from: Understanding PrEP: Perceptions and Misconceptions Amongst Men Who Have Sex With Men in Upstate South Carolina (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. ConductScience Data. https://conductscience.org/data/records/prep-perceptions-south-carolina

Article:

Golder, J., Zanetti-Weeks, C., Lagerberg, E., & Jones, D. (2026). Understanding PrEP: Perceptions and Misconceptions Amongst Men Who Have Sex With Men in Upstate South Carolina. Journal of the American Medical Student Association (JAMSA), 1(1). https://conductscience.org/articles/amsa-journal/v1/i1/understanding-prep-perceptions-and-misconceptions-amongst-men-who-have-sex-with-men-in-upstate-south-carolina