Table 3.
Factors associated with preventive practice of HIV/AIDS among FSWs in Afar region, Northeast Ethiopia, 2018
| List of Predictor variables |
Category of variables |
Preventive practice | COR (95% CI) | AOR (95% CI | |
| Yes (%) | No (%) | ||||
| Age | 15–24 | 194 (49.4) |
134(34.1) | 0.598 (0.335,1.066) |
0.065(0.021,0.196)*** |
| >=25 | 46(11.7) | 19 (4.8) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Marital status | Single | 171 (43.5) |
74 (18.8) | 2.64 (1.73, 4.04) | 2.57(1.06,6.21)* |
| Married | 69 (17.6) | 79(20.1) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
|
The completed Education level attended |
Can't read & write | 9 (2.3) | 21 (5.3) | 0.316(0.134, 0.742) |
0.133(0.032, 0.557)** |
| Can read & write | 78 (19.8) | 40 (10.2) | 1.43 (0.86, 2.40) | 0.524(0.21, 1.33) | |
| Primary school | 77 (19.6) | 36 (9.2) | 1.57 (0.93, 2.66) | 2.65 (0.074, 9.47) | |
| Secondary & above |
76 (19.3 | 56 (14.2) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
|
Residence before being FSWs |
Urban | 165 (42.0) |
74 (18.8) | 2.35(1.54,3.57) | 3.26(1.25,8.54)* |
| Rural | 75(19.1) | 79(20.1) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Work place | Hotel/bar based | 236 (60.1) |
144 (36.6) |
3.68(1.11, 12.19) | 0.45 (0.03, 6.47) |
| Home based | 4 (1.0) | 9 (2.3) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
| Currently Drink | No | 33 (8.4) | 14 (3.6) | 1.00 | |
| Alcohol | Yes | 207 (52.7) |
139 (35.4) |
0.632(0.326,1.22) | 0.104(0.026,0.417)** |
|
Currently use Shisha |
No | 230 (58.5 | 141 (35.9) |
1.00 | 1.00 |
| Yes | 10 (2.5) | 12(3.1) | 0.511(0.215, 1.213) |
0.254(0.056, 1.154) | |
| Currently | No | 228 | 121 | 1.00 | 1.00 |
| Cigarette smoking | Yes | (58.0) 12(3.1) |
(30.8) 32(8.1) |
0.199(0.099,0.40) | 0.096 (0.022, 0.414)** |
|
Aware of HIV mode of transmission |
No | 33 (8.4) | 114 (29.0) |
0.055 (0.033,0.91) | 0.08 (0.03, 0.22)*** |
| Yes | 207 (52.7) |
39 (9.9) | 1.00 | 1.00 | |
*
P<0.05
**
P<0.01
***
P<0.001
COR=Crude Odds Ratio, AOR= Adjusted Odds ratio, CI= Confidence interval