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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int J STD AIDS. 2019 Jun 3;30(9):843–852. doi: 10.1177/0956462419840460

Table 4.

Correlates of prior HIV testing among sexually active participants (n = 644) using bivariate and multivariate logistic regression.

Male
Female
Variable Prior HIV
test N (%)
Unadjusted
OR (95% CI)
P value Adjusted ORa
(95% CI)
P value Prior HIV
test N (%)
Unadjusted
OR (95% CI)
P value Adjusted ORa
(95% CI)
P value
Sociodemographic and contextual variables
Age (years)
 18–25 26 (57.8) 1.00 1.00 73 (83.9) 1.00 1.00
 26–35 52 (77.6) 2.53 (1.11–5.78) 0.03 3.56 (1.34–9.45) 0.01 119 (97.5) 7.61 (2.11–27.4) <0.01 6.03 (1.57–23.16) <0.01
 36–45 61 (65.6) 1.39 (0.67–2.89) 0.37 1.61 (0.62–4.19) 0.33 81 (89.0) 1.55 (0.65–3.71)  0.32 1.09 (0.39–3.00)  0.87
 45+ 32 (48.5) 0.69 (0.32–1.47) 0.34 0.77 (0.28–2.14) 0.62 46 (63.0) 0.33 (0.16–0.68) <0.01 0.21 (0.08–0.56) <0.01
Marital status
 Single 48 (57.1) Ref 1.00 82 (85.4) Ref 1.00
 Ever married 123 (65.8) 1.44 (0.85–2.44) 0.17 1.93 (0.97–3.83) 0.06 237 (85.6) 1.01 (0.52–1.95) 0.97 1.30 (0.55–3.05) 0.55
Education
 No education 19 (48.7) Ref 1.00 63 (81.8) Ref 1.00
 Primary 130 (65.3) 1.98 (0.99–3.96) 0.05 1.70 (0.77–3.77) 0.19 222 (87.1) 1.49 (0.75–2.96) 0.25 1.31 (0.59–2.93)
 Secondary or higher 22 (66.7) 2.11 (0.81–5.49) 0.13 2.30 (0.76–6.92) 0.14 34 (82.9) 1.08 (0.40–2.93) 0.88 0.52 (0.15–1.78) 0.30
Ethnic group
 Other 66 (62.9) Ref 1.00 100 (87.7) Ref 1.00
 Zaramo 105 63.2 1.02 (0.61–1.69) 0.95 1.38 (0.74–2.56) 0.31 219 (84.6) 0.77 (0.40–1.47) 0.43 0.90 (0.42–1.95) 0.79
HIV status
 Negative 149 (63.9) Ref 278 (85.8) Ref
 Positive 14 (63.6) 1.00 (0.40–2.48) 0.99 30 (88.24) 1.24 (0.42–3.69) 0.70
Attitudes, beliefs, and behavior variables
Fear of being tested
 No 162 (64.5) Ref 1.00 301 (85.5) Ref
 Yes 9 (45.0) 0.44 (0.18–1.13) 0.09 0.31 (0.11–0.86) 0.03 15 (88.2) 1.27 (0.28–5.72) 0.76
Know about ART
 No 51 (57.3) Ref 99 (81.2) Ref
 Yes 120 (65.9) 1.44 (0.86–2.43) 0.17 220 (87.6) 1.65 (0.91–2.97) 0.10
Know HIV+ person
 No 91 (59.1) Ref 194 (90.0) Ref
 Yes 78 (69.0) 1.54 (0.92–2.57) 0.10 120 (90.9) 1.91 (0.96–3.80) 0.07 2.74 (1.24–6.07) 0.01
Discriminatory attitudes
 Low 110 (64.0) 1.0 206 (87.3) 1.00
 High 61 (61.2) 0.90 (0.54–1.51) 0.70 111 (82.2) 0.67 (0.38–1.21) 0.19
Ever talk about HIV
 No 40 (52.0) Ref 1.00 111 (82.2) Ref
 Yes 131 (67.5) 1.92 (1.12–3.29) 0.02 2.28 (1.20–4.31) 0.01 207 (87.7) 1.54 (0.86–2.78) 0.15
Lifetime alcohol use
 No 84 (71.8) Ref 1.00 225 (87.6) Ref
 Yes 87 (56.5) 0.51 (0.31–0.85) 0.01 0.56 (0.29–1.02) 0.06 94 (81.0) 0.61 (0.33–1.10) 0.10

ART: antiretroviral therapy.

a

Adjusted for all variables listed in addition to village.