Table 4.

Associations of HIV stigmatising beliefs, risk behaviours, and safer practices

	Having had an episode of STD		Having had multiple sex partners		Having had commercial sex		Condom use		Intention to receive HIV test
	OR†	95% CI‡	OR	95%CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI	OR	95% CI
Unadjusted
Stigmatising beliefs*	2.32	1.70 to 3.16	1.75	1.20 to 2.54	1.94	1.39 to 2.71	0.60	0.47 to 0.76	0.64	0.54 to 0.77
Multiple logistic regression
Stigmatising beliefs
1 v 0	1.71	1.14 to 2.58	0.84	0.49 to 1.45	1.38	0.88 to 2.16	0.71	0.50 to 0.98	0.82	0.64 to 1.06
2 v 0	2.00	1.33 to 3.03	1.58	0.96 to 2.60	1.73	1.11 to 2.71	0.91	0.65 to 1.28	0.64	0.50 to 0.83
3 or 4 v 0	1.84	1.20 to 2.82	2.01	1.21 to 3.32	1.99	1.27 to 3.12	0.65	0.45 to 0.96	0.52	0.40 to 0.68
Goodness of fit test	χ2 = 9.16, p = 0.33		χ2 = 9.19, p = 0.33		χ2 = 7.58, p = 0.48		χ2 = 8.16, p = 0.42		χ2 = 5.88, p = 0.66

^*Having stigmatising beliefs v none.

^†Odds ratio.

^‡95% confidence interval.