Table 2. Univariate and multivariate analysis of demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with positive syphilis test among pregnant women.

	Positive syphilis test		Univariate analysis		Multivariate analysis
Characteristic	No. positive (n = 106)	% positive (0.4%)	OR (95% CI)	p	OR (95% CI)	p
Age
Less than 21 years old	5	0.2	1.00		1.00
21 to 25 years old	24	0.2	1.22 (0.47–3.20)	0.69	1.01 (0.38–2.68)	0.99
26 to 30 years old	38	0.4	2.26 (0.89–5.74)	0.09	1.81 (0.71–4.67)	0.22
31 to 35 years old	19	0.6	3.19 (1.19–8.56)	0.02	2.70 (0.99–7.32)	0.05
More than 35 years old	20	1.3	7.29 (2.73–19.46)	<0.01	5.90 (2.13–16.34)	<0.01
Marital status
Single*	8	0.9	2.55 (1.24–5.26)	0.01
Married	98	0.4	1.00
Highest level of school completed
Illiterate/elementary school	19	0.7	6.23 (0.83–46.64)	0.08
Middle school	73	0.4	3.14 (0.44–22.63)	0.26
High school	13	0.4	3.24 (0.42–24.29)	0.26
More than high school	1	0.1	1.00
No. of children
Zero	25	0.2	1.00
One	49	0.5	2.21 (1.36–3.58)	<0.01
Two or more	32	0.7	3.37 (2.00–5.70)	<0.01
History of adverse pregnancy outcome
No	74	0.3	1.00
Yes	31	1.2	3.81 (2.50–5.81)	<0.01	3.64 (2.30–5.76)	<0.01
Gestational trimester at testing
First trimester	17	0.4	1.00
Second trimester	26	0.5	1.43 (0.77–2.64)	0.25
Third trimester and later	47	0.3	0.85 (0.49–1.48)	0.56
Time spent residing in current community (months)
Less than 3 months	10	0.4	1.00
3 to 6 months	4	0.4	1.10 (0.34–3.50)	0.88
6 to 12 months	8	0.6	1.65 (0.65–4.20)	0.29
More than 12 months	76	0.4	1.07 (0.55–2.07)	0.84
Amount of time husband/boyfriend slept outside the house in last 12 months
Less than 1 week	71	0.4	1.00
1 week to 1 month	11	0.6	1.79 (0.95–3.39)	0.07
1 to 3 months	8	1.1	3.03 (1.45–6.32)	<0.01
3 to 6 months	3	0.7	2.08 (0.65–6.63)	0.22
More than 6 months	12	0.3	0.92 (0.50–1.70)	0.78

^*Includes women who are not married, separated, widowed, and divorced.