Table 1. Results of bivariate analyses for STI risk perception for peers and various predictor variables.
| HIV risk perception for peers | HPV Risk perception for peers | Chlamydia risk perception for peers | ||||||||||
| High/med (n/%) | Low (n/%) | *DK (n/%) | **p value | High/med (n/%) | Low (n/%) | *DK (n/%) | **p value | High/med (n/%) | Low (n/%) | *DK (n/%) | **p value | |
| Age in years | ||||||||||||
| ≤14 | 366 (71) | 131 (25) | 18 (4) | 0.09 | 84 (17) | 74 (15) | 341 (68) | <0.01 | 98 (20) | 63 (13) | 339 (68) | <0.01 |
| ≥15 | 414 (67) | 191 (31) | 15 (2) | 136 (23) | 109 (18) | 277 (59) | 187 (31) | 114 (19) | 246 (50) | |||
| Gender | ||||||||||||
| Female | 474 (76) | 135 (22) | 13 (2) | <0.01 | 138 (23) | 85 (14) | 382 (63) | <0.01 | 176 (29) | 76 (13) | 356 (59) | <0.01 |
| Male | 306 (60) | 187 (36) | 20 (4) | 82 (17) | 98 (20) | 314 (64) | 109 (22) | 101 (20) | 287 (58) | |||
| School education of mother | ||||||||||||
| High | 255 (63) | 135 (34) | 12 (3) | 71 (18) | 63 (16) | 254 (65) | 101 (26) | 58 (15) | 230 (59) | |||
| Middle | 236 (74) | 79 (25) | 3 (1) | <0.01 | 72 (24) | 56 (18) | 178 (58) | 0.14 | 70 (23) | 63 (21) | 172 (56) | 0.12 |
| Low | 70 (66) | 33 (31) | 3 (3) | 24 (24) | 20 (20) | 57 (56) | 27 (26) | 19 (19) | 57 (55) | |||
| Unknown | 219 (71) | 75 (5) | 15 (5) | 53 (17) | 44 (14) | 207 (68) | 87 (28) | 37 (12) | 184 (60) | |||
| Migrant background | ||||||||||||
| no | 523 (68) | 229 (30) | 18 (2) | 0.15 | 138 (18) | 127 (17) | 482 (65) | 0.14 | 190 (25) | 128 (17) | 434 (58) | 0.40 |
| yes | 246 (71) | 87 (25) | 13 (4) | 79 (36) | 54 (16) | 200 (60) | 88 (26) | 46 (14) | 200 (60) | |||
| Ever had sex | ||||||||||||
| No | 560 (69) | 224 (28) | 27 (3) | 0.36 | 139 (18) | 124 (16) | 525 (67) | <0.01 | 166 (21) | 118 (15) | 507 (64) | <0.01 |
| yes | 213 (68) | 94 (30) | 6 (2) | 79 (26) | 56 (19) | 166 (55) | 117 (39) | 56 (18) | 131 (43) | |||
| School type | ||||||||||||
| up to 10th grade | 244 (68) | 105 (29) | 12 (3) | 0.77 | 64 (18) | 64 (18) | 221 (63) | 0.45 | 86 (25) | 57 (16) | 205 (59) | 0.85 |
| Up to 12th/13th grade | 536 (69) | 217 (28) | 21 (3) | 156 (21) | 119 (16) | 475 (63) | 199 (26) | 120 (16) | 438 (58) | |||
*
DK = Don't know.
**
p-value Chi-square.