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Table 3 Factors associated with experienced in lifetime abstinence as HIV risk preventive behaviour in taxi drivers and assistants, 2006

From: HIV related risk behaviours among taxi drivers and their assistants in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: descriptive cross-sectional survey

Variables

Crude OR 95% CI

Adj OR 95% CI

Categories of taxi drivers

 

Minibus taxi

1

1

Assistant

5.4 (3.26-8.90)

4 (1.58-9.45)*

Small taxi

1 (0.54-1.95)

0.76 (0.35-1.65)

Khat

  

Yes

1

1

No

3.9 (2.48-6.04)

3.7 (2.13-6.31)**

Living arrangement

 

Alone

1

1

With parents/relatives

2.4 (1.48-3.78)

2 (1.14-3.60)*

With girlfriend/peers

0.47 (0.23-0.99)

0.60 (0.25-1.42)

VCT

  

Yes

1

1

No

4.7 (2.75-8.08)

3.5 (1.84-6.72)*

Monthly cash gain

  

210-435

1

1

436-630

0.30 (0.18-0.50)

0.50 (0.25-0.98)*

631-880

0.19 (0.12-0.31)

0.83 (0.34-2.04)

881-3640

0.08 (0.036-0.19)

0.31 (0.08-1.25)

Experience on taxi

  

<1 year

1

1

1-5 years

0.86 (0.45-1.64)

1.1 (0.50-2.39)

5 + years

0.07 (0.0281-0.17)

0.17 (0.60-0.47)*

  1. *P < 0.05 ** P < 0.001.