Table 3.
Knowledge, perceptions, behaviors, and infectious biomarkers of 395 female sex workers, stratified by continuous scale of pictorial scale of condom use skill, Guangxi, China, 2004
| Characteristics | Total | <16 n = 66 |
=16 n = 91 |
=20 n = 238 |
Correlation coefficients | P value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIV/STI knowledge | 10.6 (5.2) | 9.6 (4.8) | 10.5 (5.4) | 11.1(5.2) | 0.118 | 0.017 |
| STI symptoms | 3.5 (2.9) | 2.8 (2.7) | 3.3 (2.7) | 3.7 (2.9) | 0.125 | 0.013 |
| HIV transmission modes | 4.7 (2.0) | 4.5 (1.8) | 4.3 (2.3) | 4.9 (1.9) | 0.119 | 0.020 |
| Misconception of HIV transmission | 2.7 (2.0) | 2.8 (2.0) | 2.8 (2.1) | 2.7 (2.0) | −0.026 | 0.614 |
| Susceptibility | 0.3 (0.6) | 0.3 (0.6) | 0.3 (0.6) | 0.3 (0.6) | −0.018 | 0.725 |
| Severity | 1.8 (1.2) | 1.7 (1.2) | 1.8 (1.2) | 1.8 (1.2) | 0.044 | 0.382 |
| Perceived benefits | 1.8 (1.7) | 2.1 (1.7) | 1.8 (1.7) | 1.8 (1.7) | −0.015 | 0.766 |
| Condom use self-efficacy | 2.6 (1.2) | 2.1 (1.3) | 2.5 (1.0) | 2.8 (1.1) | 0.211 | 0.001 |
| Consistent condom use with clients ever | 16.2% | 13.6% | 19.8% | 15.6% | 0.008 | 0.539 |
| Consistent condom use with clients P3T | 26.2% | 18.5% | 29.7% | 27.0% | 0.046 | 0.265 |
| Appropriate condom use with clients | 72.3% | 74.5% | 63.4% | 75.2% | 0.050 | 0.118 |
| Condom use communication with clients | 81.3% | 75.8% | 83.3% | 82.1% | 0.019 | 0.430 |
| Consistent condom use with stable partners evera | 9.2% | 2.4% | 12.9% | 9.4% | 0.062 | 0.176 |
| Consistent condom use with stable partners P3Ta | 15.2% | 7.1% | 18.6% | 15.8% | 0.059 | 0.249 |
| Appropriate condom use with stable partnersa | 61.6% | 50.0% | 45.5% | 70.0% | 0.192 | 0.010 |
| Condom use communication with stable partnersa | 62.4% | 40.5% | 61.4% | 68.2% | 0.170 | 0.002 |
| Condom use intention | 56.7% | 51.5% | 57.1% | 58.0% | 0.046 | 0.641 |
| Any STI biomarker | 43.2% | 57.7% | 47.0% | 38.3% | −0.130 | 0.029 |
P3T in past 3 times
a
Data were only available for 283 female sex workers with stable partners