Table 2.
Factors associated with ongoing sex work during pregnancy among primiparous female sex workers (N = 251).
| N | Continued sex work during pregnancy after becoming aware of pregnancy (N = 231) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Row % | Univariate analysis | Multivariate analysis*** | ||||
| Crude OR (95% CI) | P value | Adjusted OR (95% CI) | P value | |||
| Age-group | ||||||
| ≤25 >25 |
154 97 |
93.5 89.7 |
Ref 0.60 (0.24, 1.5) |
0.3 | — | — |
| Devadasi status | ||||||
| No Yes |
158 93 |
89.9 95.7 |
Ref 2.5 (0.81, 7.7) |
0.1 | — | — |
| Literacy | ||||||
| Literate Illiterate |
178 73 |
92.7 90.4 |
Ref 0.74 (0.28, 1.9) |
0.5 | — | — |
| Duration in sex work | ||||||
| ≤1 year >1 year |
49 202 |
83.7 94.1 |
Ref 3.1 (1.2, 8.0) |
0.02 | Ref 2.7 (1.0, 7.5) |
0.05 |
| Long-term partner at time of pregnancy | ||||||
| No Yes |
38 213 |
91.7 94.6 |
Ref 1.6 (0.74, 3.3) |
0.2 | — | — |
| Mobile* | ||||||
| No Yes |
145 106 |
92.4 91.5 |
Ref 0.88 (0.35, 2.2) |
0.8 | — | — |
| Place of residence (%) | ||||||
| Urban Rural |
89 162 |
86.5 95.1 |
Ref 3.0 (1.2, 7.6) |
0.02 | Ref 3.3 (1.2, 8.9) |
0.02 |
| Received at least one HIV test during the pregnancy | ||||||
| No Yes |
112 139 |
85.7 97.0 |
Ref 5.6 (1.8, 17.4) |
0.003 | Ref 6.3 (2.0, 20.1) |
0.002 |
| Voluntary abortion during the pregnancy | ||||||
| No Yes |
209 42 |
92.8 88.0 |
Ref 0.57 (0.20, 1.7) |
0.3 | — | — |
| Experienced pregnancy loss (spontaneous abortion or stillbirth) during the pregnancy | ||||||
| No Yes |
194 57 |
93.8 84.0 |
Ref 0.40 (0.16, 1.0) |
0.06 | — | — |
| Place of delivery (N = 197**) | ||||||
| Health-care facility Home |
110 87 |
98.2 95.4 |
Ref 0.38 (0.07, 2.1) |
0.3 | — | — |
| Aware of methods to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV | ||||||
| No Yes |
189 62 |
91.5 93.6 |
Ref 1.3 (0.43, 4.2) |
0.6 | — | — |
*FSWs who also travel to a village or city outside their place of residence to conduct sex work. **Includes stillbirth. ***Multivariate analysis includes primiparous FSWs who experienced a miscarriage, or received a voluntary abortion. Final multivariate model includes the following variables: duration in sex work, place of residence, antenatal HIV testing.