Table 4.
Intimate relationship characteristics associated with UAI with regular male sex partners in the past six months
| Factors | UAI with regular male sex partners | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Row% (n/n1) | OR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI) | ORm (95% CI) | |
| Had multiple RP in the past six months | ||||
| No | 51.5 (141/274) | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 59.1 (78/132) | 1.36 (0.90,2.07) | 1.31 (0.85,2.03) | – |
| Expectation for this relationship | ||||
| Length of the relationship | ||||
| < 6 month | 49.1 (104/212) | 1 | 1 | |
| ≥ 6 month | 59.3 (115/194) | 1.51 (1.02,2.24)* | 1.69 (1.11,2.58)* | 1.67 (1.09,2.56)* |
| Believed this was a serious relationship | ||||
| No | 46.7 (85/182) | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 59.8 (134/224) | 1.70 (1.14,2.52)** | 1.75 (1.16,2.64)** | NS |
| Perceived that this relationship would continue for a long time | ||||
| No | 52.4 (44/84) | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 54.4 (175/322) | 1.08 (0.67,1.75) | 1.17 (0.71,1.96) | – |
| Conflict of interest | ||||
| Exchanged money or materials to maintain this sexual relationship | ||||
| No | 53.5 (213/398) | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 75.0 (6/8) | 2.61 (0.52,13.07) | 2.50 (0.49,12.82) | – |
| The dependence model | ||||
| Invested more emotion in this regular relationship | ||||
| No | 53.6 (142/265) | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 54.6 (77/141) | 1.04 (0.69,1.57) | 1.03 (0.68,1.57) | – |
| Your RP is dominant in this relationship | ||||
| No | 55.5 (172/310) | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 49.0 (47/96) | 0.77 (0.49,1.22) | 0.75 (0.46,1.22) | – |
| Open communication on sexual relationship | ||||
| Openly discussed being monogamous in this relationship | ||||
| No | 48.2 (119/247) | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 62.9 (100/159) | 1.82 (1.21,2.74)** | 1.83 (1.21,2.79)** | 1.81 (1.19,2.76)** |
| Openly discussed a sexual agreement or requirement to use condoms when having sex with other partners | ||||
| No | 53.9 (104/193) | 1 | 1 | |
| Yes | 54.0 (115/213) | 1.00 (0.68,1.48) | 1.04 (0.70,1.56) | – |
†p < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01
AOR Adjusted odds ratio in multivariate logistic regression, ORm Adjusted odds ratio in multiple forward stepwise regression
AOR and ORm were calculated after adjusting for confounders, and confounders including age (as a continuous variable), marital status (currently married or not), Guangzhou permanent resident (Yes or No), education level (higher than post-secondary education level or not), sexual orientation (bisexual/uncertain, or homosexual), and duration being MSM (less than five years, five years/ longer than five years), recruitment via Internet (Yes or No)
n1: n1 actually is the n in Table 3, to distinguish the n in Tables 4, 5, 6, we use n1 to represent the n of Table 3
NS: Variables with p < 0.10 in multivariate logistic regression, but were not significant in multiple forward stepwise logistic regression