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. 2022 Jun 9;9:842121. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.842121

Table 2.

Barriers to take up HIV testing caused by COVID-19 and its control measures and changes in sexual behaviors (n = 412).

%a
Predisposing factors
Condomless anal intercourse with regular male sex partners
With such behavior at baseline only 9.0
No such behavior either at baseline or follow-up 56.6
With such behavior both at baseline and follow-up 15.0
With such behavior at follow-up only 19.4
Condomless anal intercourse with non-regular male sex partners
With such behavior at baseline only 7.0
No such behavior either at baseline or follow-up 76.7
With such behavior both at baseline and follow-up 5.3
With such behavior at follow-up only 11.0
Condomless anal intercourse with male sex workers
With such behavior at baseline only 2.0
No such behavior either at baseline or follow-up 93.2
With such behavior both at baseline and follow-up 0.5
With such behavior at follow-up only 4.3
Sexualized drug use
With such behavior at baseline only 4.6
No such behavior either at baseline or follow-up 73.8
With such behavior both at baseline and follow-up 7.5
With such behavior at follow-up only 14.0
Enabling factors
Barriers to take up HIV testing caused by COVID-19 and its control measures during the follow-up period, % Yes
HIV testing service providers suspended their services 12.4
HIV testing service providers reduced their service hours 14.3
Difficult to obtain HIV self-testing kits 10.4
History of home/centralized quarantine 12.6
You avoided unnecessary travel and tried to stay at home 54.6
You avoided going to crowded places 60.9
Reinforcing factors
Your male sex partners or friends suggested you not to take up HIV testing 16.5
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Multiple imputation was performed to replace missing values at Month 6. Markov chain Monte Carlo methods were used for data with an arbitrary pattern of missing values, while Monotone methods were used for data having a monotone pattern of missing values. Predictors included baseline background characteristics and baseline value of the variable with missing values at Month 6.