Table 1.
Demographics of participants by circumcision status
| circumcision type | p-value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not circumcised | Medically circumcised | Traditionally circumcised | Total | |||
| Enrolment Age (years) | Median (IQR) | 25 (22–28) | 25 (23–29) | 27 (23–32) | 25 (22–29) | 0.147 |
| Age of sexual debut (years) | Median (IQR) | 17 (16–18) | 16 (15–18) | 17 (16–18) | 17 (15–18) | 0.066 |
| Total years of schooling (years) | Median (IQR) | 12 (12–14) | 12 (12–13) | 12 (10–13) | 12 (12–13) | 0.280 |
| Race n (column %) | Black | 220 (98.7) | 79 (100.0) | 37 (100.0) | 336 (99.1) | 0.813 |
| White | 1 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.3) | ||
| Other | 2 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.6) | ||
| Marital status n (column %) | Single | 215 (96.4) | 72 (91.1) | 34 (91.9) | 321 (94.7) | 0.074 |
| Divorced | 0 (0.0) | 2 (2.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.6) | ||
| Married | 8 (3.6% | 5 (6.3) | 3(8.1) | 16 (4.7) | ||
| Does your partner live with you n (column %) | No | 168 (75.3) | 61 (77.2) | 30 (81.1) | 259 (76.4) | 0.780 |
| Yes | 36 (16.1) | 13 (16.5) | 6 1 (6.2) | 55 (16.2) | ||
| Not applicable/ no partner | 19 (8.5) | 5 (6.3) | 1 (2.7) | 25 (7.4) | ||
| Employment n (column %) | Unemployed | 110 (49.3%) | 37 (46.8%) | 19 (51.4%) | 166 (49.0) | 0.701 |
| Self employed | 16 (7.2%) | 6 (7.6%) | 1 (2.7%) | 23 (6.8) | ||
| Student | 16 (7.2%) | 9 (11.4%) | 1 (2.7%) | 26 (7.7) | ||
| Employed | 79 (35.4) | 27 (34.2) | 16 (43.2) | 122 (36.0) | ||
| Other | 2 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.6) | ||