Table 1.
Socio-Demographic Characteristics of Adult PLWHA, Jimma Zone Public Hospital, South West, Ethiopia, September 2018.
| Variables | Cases No (%) |
controls No (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| sex | Female | 239 (70.5) | 215 (63.4) |
| Male | 100 (29.5) | 124 (36.6) | |
| Residence | Rural | 123 (36.3) | 91 (26.84) |
| Urban | 216 (63.7) | 248 (73.3) | |
| Age | 18-24 | 16 (2.5) | 19 (5.6) |
| 25-34 | 180 (24.7) | 179 (52.8) | |
| 35-44 | 88 (48.1) | 92 (27.1) | |
| ≥45 | 55 (24.7) | 49 (14.45) | |
| Marital status | single | 84 (24.8) | 120 (35.4) |
| married | 155 (45.7) | 149 (43.9) | |
| divorced | 66 (19.5) | 10 (2.9) | |
| separated | 19 (5.6) | 23 (6.8) | |
| widowed | 15 (4.4) | 37 (10.9) | |
| Religion | Orthodox | 145 (42.8) | 185 (54.3) |
| Muslim | 131 (38.6) | 120 (35.4) | |
| Protestant | 38 (11.2) | 24 (7.1) | |
| Others | 25 (7.4) | 10 (2.9) | |
| Ethnicity | Oromo | 178 (52.5) | 168 (49.5) |
| Amhara | 84 (24.7) | 95 (28.0) | |
| Kaffa | 38 (11.3) | 44 (12.9) | |
| Dawro | 24 (7.0) | 19 (5.6) | |
| Others | 15 (4.4) | 13 (3.8) | |
| Educational status | Illiterate | 101 (29.7) | 98 (28.9) |
| Read and write | 48 (14.1) | 57 (16.8) | |
| 5-8 primary | 94 (27.7) | 103 (30.3) | |
| 9-12(secondary) | 40 (11.7) | 46 (13.5) | |
| Collage and above | 56 (16.6) | 35 (10.3) | |
| Employment status | Gov’t employee | 69 (20.3) | 72 (21.2) |
| Farmer/student/retired | 73 (21.5) | 67 (19.7) | |
| Unemployed | 29 (8.5) | 40 (11.7) | |
| House wife | 28 (8.2) | 34 (10.0) | |
| Daily laborer | 76 (22.4) | 61 (17.9) | |
| Merchant/private business | 64 (18.8) | 65 (19.1) | |
| Household food security status | Food secure | 49 (14.6) | 334 (98.6) |
| Food insecure | 290 (85..4) | 5 (1.4) | |
| Wealth index | Poor | 290 (85.5) | 5 (1.5) |
| Middle | 43 (12.7) | 128 (37.8) | |
| Rich | 6 (1.8) | 206 (60.8) |