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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Sex Transm Dis. 2014 May;41(5):312–318. doi: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000114

Table 4.

Relationship between physical, sexual and psychological violence and condom breakage among female sex workers participating in the integrated biological and behavioural survey, Benin, 2012

Type of violence Condom breakage (%) Univariate (unadjusted) Multivariate (adjusted)

PR* 95%CI** P-value PR 95%CI P-value
Physical 24.0 1.72 1.22 – 2.41 0.002 1.59 1.12 – 2.27 0.010
Sexual 25.9 1.82 1.27 – 2.61 0.001 1.72 1.20 – 2.47 0.003
Psychological 19.3 1.38 1.01 – 1.88 0.041 1.31 0.94 – 1.81 0.105
Violence score
0 12.9 1.00 - - 1.00 - -
1 16.7 1.29 0.88 – 1.88 0.193 1.24 0.83 – 1.85 0.294
2 22.6 1.74 1.12 – 2.71 0.013 1.57 1.00 – 2.48 0.054
3 27.8 2.15 1.32 – 3.49 0.002 2.04 1.26 – 3.33 0.004
P-value for trend - 0.003 0.002

Adjusted for sex work typology, age at first paid sex, duration in sex work, number of clients and non-paying partners and literacy;

Number of types of violence concurrently experienced by women;

Wald test;

*

PR, Prevalence ratio of condom breakage (at least one versus none with any sexual partner during the last seven days);

**

CI, Confidence interval.