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 |
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.