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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 20.
Published in final edited form as: Int J STD AIDS. 2008 Oct;19(10):704–710. doi: 10.1258/ijsa.2008.007291

Table 3.

Factors associated with STDs/HIV knowledge and condom knowledge in urban high school ‘Focus-on-Teens’ participants

Variables Number of correct questions answered (95% CI)* P value
STDs/HIV knowledge (out of 16 questions)
Intercept 10.05 (8.42, 11.69) <0.0001
Age (years) 0.16 (0.05, 0.27) 0.0058
Gender (female versus male) 0.55 (0.30, 0.80) <0.0001
Sexually active (yes versus no) 0.43 (0.23, 0.64) <0.0001
Sexually active (unknown versus no) –1.61 (–2.23, –0.99) <0.0001
Survey (survey 4 versus 3 versus 2 versus 1) 0.43 (0.35, 0.51) <0.0001
Condom knowledge (out of 4 questions)
Intercept 2.39 (1.86, 2.93) <0.0001
Age (years) 0.04 (0, 0.08) 0.0334
Gender (female versus male) 0.15 (0.07, 0.23) 0.0005
Sexually active (yes versus no) 0.08 (0.02, 0.15) 0.0001
Sexually active (unknown versus no) –0.42 (–0.63, –0.20) 0.0131
Survey (survey 4 versus 3 versus 2 versus 1) 0.15 (0.12, 0.18) <0.0001
*

Generalized estimating equations

CI = confidence interval