Table 1 Prevalence of socio-demographic factors, self-rated health, unmet medical care and sexual health counseling needs, and barriers faced in seeking care among 980 university students in Uganda
All | Female | Male | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
n | % | n | % | n | % | |
Sex | ||||||
Female | 347 | 35.4 | ||||
Male | 633 | 64.6 | ||||
Age | ||||||
Younger (< 24) | 628 | 65.6 | 250 | 75.1 | 378 | 60.6 |
Older (≥ 24) | 329 | 34.4 | 83 | 24.9 | 246 | 39.4 |
Missing | (23) | (14) | (9) | |||
Area of origin | ||||||
Rural | 424 | 43.7 | 106 | 31.0 | 318 | 50.6 |
Urban/peri-urban | 546 | 56.3 | 236 | 69.0 | 310 | 49.4 |
Missing | (10) | |||||
Educational level of head of household | ||||||
Post Primary school | 688 | 74.5 | 274 | 84.8 | 414 | 69.0 |
≤ Primary school | 235 | 25.5 | 49 | 15.2 | 186 | 31.0 |
Missing | (57) | |||||
Self-rated health | ||||||
Good | 730 | 85.1 | 254 | 83.6 | 476 | 85.9 |
Poor | 128 | 14.9 | 50 | 16.4 | 78 | 14.1 |
Missing | (122) | |||||
Unmet medical care needs | ||||||
Yes | 377 | 41.0 | 140 | 43.1 | 237 | 39.8 |
No | 543 | 59.0 | 185 | 56.9 | 358 | 60.2 |
Missing | (60) | |||||
Unmet sexual health counselling needs | ||||||
Yes | 182 | 20.8 | 54 | 17.5 | 128 | 22.7 |
No | 691 | 79.2 | 254 | 82.5 | 437 | 77.3 |
Missing | (107) | |||||
Barriers to medical care seeking | ||||||
Acceptability | 369 | 70.4 | 128 | 71.5 | 241 | 69.9 |
The health problem disappeared | 138 | 49 | 89 | |||
Did not think I can get any help | 29 | 5 | 24 | |||
Did not know about any good doctor | 12 | 3 | 9 | |||
Did not have time | 24 | 8 | 16 | |||
Wanted to wait for a while | 70 | 34 | 36 | |||
Other reasons | 96 | 29 | 67 | |||
Accessibility | 87 | 16.6 | 27 | 15.1 | 60 | 17.4 |
Did not have enough money | 87 | 27 | 60 | |||
Availability | 68 | 13.0 | 24 | 13.4 | 44 | 12.8 |
Waiting time was too long | 33 | 14 | 19 | |||
Did not succeed to get in touch with a doctor | 35 | 10 | 25 | |||
Missing | (48) | 20 | 28 | |||
Barriers to sexual health counselling seeking | ||||||
Acceptability | 244 | 72.2 | 69 | 69.0 | 175 | 73.5 |
The health problem disappeared | 105 | 27 | 78 | |||
Did not think I can get any help | 34 | 6 | 28 | |||
Did not know about any good counsellor | 38 | 9 | 29 | |||
Did not feel confident with existing counselling services | 67 | 27 | 40 | |||
Accessibility | 39 | 11.5 | 15 | 15.0 | 24 | 10.1 |
Did not have enough money | 39 | 15 | 24 | |||
Availability | 55 | 16.3 | 16 | 16.0 | 39 | 16.4 |
Waiting time was too long | 27 | 8 | 19 | |||
Did not succeed to get in touch with a counsellor | 28 | 8 | 20 | |||
Missing | (10) | 1 | 9 | |||