Table 1.
Correlation between HSV-2 serology and various sociodemographic factors in antenatal women
| Patient characteristic | Total no.(%) of patients | HSV-2 serology |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| +ve (%) | -ve (%) | |||
| Age (years) | 0.012* | |||
| ≤20 | 11 (5.50) | 0 (0.00) | 11 (100) | |
| 21-25 | 90 (45.00) | 2 (2.20) | 88 (97.78) | |
| 26-30 | 72 (36.00) | 7 (9.70) | 65 (90.30) | |
| ≥30 | 27 (13.50) | 6 (22.20) | 21 (77.80) | |
| Location | 0.41 | |||
| Rural | 130 (65) | 10 (7.70) | 120 (92.30) | |
| Urban | 70 (35) | 5 (7.14) | 65 (92.86) | |
| Occupation | 0.54 | |||
| Unemployed | 195 (97.50) | 15 (7.70) | 180 (92.30) | |
| Employed | 5 (2.5) | 0 (0.00) | 5 (100) | |
| Education level | 0.56 | |||
| Illiterate | 129 (64.50) | 11 (8.53) | 118 (91.47) | |
| Primary and middle | 33 (16.50) | 2 (6.06) | 31 (93.94) | |
| Sec. and hr. sec. | 28 (14.00) | 2 (7.14) | 26 (92.86) | |
| Graduate and above | 10 (5.00) | 0 (0.00) | 10 (100) | |
*
P-values ≤0.05 are considered significant