TABLE 7.
Socio-demographic correlates of students’ attitude towards HIV/AIDS.
| Demographic variables | Attitudes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bad (53) | COR | AOR | ||||||
| n | % | n | 95% CI | p | n | 95% CI | p | |
| Age | ||||||||
| 15–19 years | 41 | 77.4 | 4.36 | 3.24–5.86 | 0.000 | 3.2 | 2.58–3.96 | 0.03 |
| 20–24 years | 12 | 22.6 | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - |
| Sex | ||||||||
| Male | 28 | 52.8 | Ref. | Ref. | ||||
| Female | 25 | 47.2 | 0.51 | 0.33–0.77 | 0.000 | 0.64 | 0.43–0.95 | 0.03 |
| Religion | ||||||||
| Christian | 51 | 96.2 | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - |
| Islam | 2 | 3.8 | 0.57 | 0.42–0.77 | 0.000 | 0.34 | 0.27–0.45 | 0.00 |
| African Indigenous | 0 | 0.0 | 1.49 | 1.08–2.06 | 0.020 | 1.01 | 0.75–1.36 | 0.95 |
| Ethnic group | ||||||||
| Ahanta | 4 | 7.6 | 1.03 | 0.76–1.39 | 0.870 | 0.37 | 0.29–0.48 | 0.00 |
| Nzema | 5 | 9.4 | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - |
| Fante | 18 | 34.0 | 2.72 | 1.92–3.85 | 0.000 | 1.3 | 0.95–1.78 | 0.10 |
| Akan | 19 | 35.8 | 1.14 | 0.83–1.57 | 0.410 | 0.62 | 0.47–0.82 | 0.00 |
| Ewe | 6 | 11.3 | 0.86 | 0.63–1.18 | 0.358 | 0.38 | 0.29–0.50 | 0.03 |
| Other | 1 | 1.9 | 0.57 | 0.42–0.77 | 0.000 | 0.34 | 0.27–0.45 | 0.02 |
| Marital status | ||||||||
| Married | 0 | 0.000 | Ref. | - | - | Ref. | - | - |
| Single | 50 | 94.3 | 1.93 | 1.53–2.43 | 0.000 | 1.79 | 1.44–2.23 | 0.00 |
| Dating | 3 | 5.7 | 1.16 | 0.90–1.49 | 0.250 | 1.13 | 0.89–1.43 | 0.31 |
| Form | ||||||||
| One | 16 | 30.2 | 1.11 | 0.85–1.45 | 0.460 | 0.74 | 0.63–0.88 | 0.00 |
| Two | 37 | 69.8 | 1.17 | 0.92–1.47 | 0.200 | 1.04 | 0.87–1.23 | 0.30 |
Ref., reference class; COR, crude odds ratio; AOR, adjusted odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; p, probability at 0.05%; Form, level of secondary school.