Heading towards the Safer Highways: an assessment of the Avahan prevention programme among long distance truck drivers in India

Table 7 Multivariate Analysis: Exposure to interventions and consistent condom use with paid and non-paid female partners, IBBA Round-2 on National Highways

Exposure to intervention and background characteristics	Consistent condom use with PFP	Consistent condom use with NPFP
	Adjusted OR [95% CI]	Adjusted OR [95% CI]
Exposure to HIV prevention program
No (Reference category)	1.0	1.0
Less intensive	1.4 [0.8 – 2.5]	2.3 [0.9 – 3.8]
Intensive	2.4 [1.4 – 4.1]	0.6 [0.4 – 1.9]
Route Categories
North-East (Reference category)	1.0	1.0
North- South	1.7 [1.1 – 2.8]	1.7 [0.9 – 3.0]
North-West	1.5 [0.8 – 2.9]	0.9 [0.5 – 1.7]
South-East	1.8 [0.9 – 3.4]	1.0 [0.6 – 1.9]
Current age (years) ^a	1.0 [0.9 – 1.2]	0.9 [0.8 – 1.1]
Literacy
Illiterate (Reference category)	1.0	1.0
Literate	1.4 [0.7 – 2.2]	1.1 [0.4 – 2.9]
Marital status
Not currently married (Reference category)	1.0	1.0
Currently married	1.2 [0.8 – 1.9]	1.1 [0.6 – 1.7]
Duration of working as truck driver (years) ^a	0.9 [0.9 – 1.0]	1.0 [ 0.8 – 1.2]
Number of round trips ^{a, b}	0.8 [0.8 – 1.1]	0.9 [ 0.8 – 1.1]
Ownership of truck
Respondent (Reference category)	1.0	1.0
Other	0.7 [0.3 – 1.5]	0.6 [0.3 – 1.7]

PFP: Paid female partners; NPFP: Non-paid female partner
OR: Odds Ratios; 95% CI: 95% Confidence Interval
The analysis was done using combined data from all four routes. Adjusted OR were estimated using multivariate logistic regression models.
^a Entered as continuous variable in the multivariate logistic regression models.
^b Between main cities of operation in past six months

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