Table 6.
Final model—urban and rural men
| IBM construct | Belief | Urban men (N = 512) [R = 0.71] β (p value) |
Rural men (N = 570) [R = 0.78] β (p value) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Behavioral beliefs | Means you will live long and healthy life | 0.13 (0.000) | |
| Will help encourage friends to get circumcised | 0.11 (0.003) | ||
| Something you are too old for now | −0.09 (0.014) | −0.12 (0.000) | |
| Will give you peace of mind | 0.13 (0.000) | ||
| Will give you sense of achievement | 0.09 (0.020) | ||
| May take too long to heal | −0.08 (0.010) | ||
| Will enhance sexual pleasure/enjoyment for you | 0.09 (0.010) | ||
| Is inappropriate because it changes way God created you (suppressor) | 0.09 (0.010) | ||
| Normative beliefs | Brothers encourage | 0.16 (0.000) | 0.14 (0.001) |
| Wife/girlfriend encourage | 0.12 (0.001) | ||
| Descriptive norm | Closest friends | 0.23 (0.000) | |
| Efficacy beliefs | If wife/girlfriend is against MC | 0.18 (0.000) | |
| If culture is against MC | 0.10 (0.017) | 0.15 (0.000) | |
| Worried about whether adequate supplies in clinics | 0.09 (0.006) | ||
| Control beliefs | The fact that MC is new, not offered before in community | 0.11 (0.003) | |
| Availability of equipment and materials | 0.16 (0.002) | ||
| If MC is only available at city clinics | 0.09 (0.004) | ||
| If you did not know where to go for MC | −0.09 (0.003) | ||
| If local chiefs/village heads support MC | 0.11 (0.029) |