Table 8.

Binary logistic regression of multiple sexual partners against its possible predictors (n=400)

Variables	Categories of variable	P-value	Odds ratio	95% confidence intervals
				Lower	Upper
Sex	Male (reference)	0.022*	0.308	0.113	0.843
Ethnicity	Hausa (reference)	0.021
	Yoruba	0.161	0.144	0.010	2.167
	Ibo	0.014*	0.022	0.001	0.465
Number of television viewing hours	Above the mean (reference)	0.786	0.875	0.332	2.300
Age	≥25 years (reference)	0.124	0.388	0.116	1.296
Level in school†	Upper level (reference)	0.848	0.889	0.266	2.967
Frequency of Internet use‡	Rarely (reference)	0.101
	Often	0.045*	5.450	1.035	28.703
	Occasionally	0.041*	7.295	1.085	49.040
Accessing the Internet for sexual material/movies is acceptable to me	Agree (reference)	0.262
	Disagree	0.122	0.376	0.109	1.300
	Undecided	0.955	0.966	0.288	3.243
Marital status	Ever married (reference)	0.999	0.000	0.000	0.001

Notes:

^*Statistically significant;

^†lower level includes first-year to third-year students; upper level includes fourth-year and fifth-year students;

^‡often indicates daily to weekly use; occasionally indicates once or twice a month; and rarely indicates once in two to three months.

Abbreviation: n, number.