Gender relations, sexual behaviour, and risk of contracting sexually transmitted infections among women in union in Uganda

Table 2 Percentage of women who reported STIs or STI symptoms by selected gender relations, sexual behaviour, partner factors, and women’s background characteristics

Variables	Percent of women reporting STIs	95 % CI	P value
Sexual empowerment			0.008
Not empowered	22.8	18.7–27.4
Sexually empowered	31.3	26.8–36.2
Involvement in decision making on own health			0.002
Not involved	33.1	27.7–38.8
Involved	23.5	20.2–27.2
Experience of any sexual violence
No	22.6	19.0–26.7
Yes	40.1	34.1–46.3
Number of lifetime partners			0.000
One	18.4	14.9–22.4
Two	28.7	22.3–36.2
Three or more	43.2	36.4–50.2
Partner control behaviours			0.000
Not controlled	17.7	13.3–23.1
Controlled in one or more	31.1	27.3–35.2
Condom used during last sex			0.123
No	26.2	23.2–29.4
Yes	39.5	23.4–58.2
Women’s age			0.572
19–19	23.0	15.3–33.1
20–29	26.2	21.4–31.7
30–39	30.2	24.8–36.2
40–49	27.7	20.9–35.6
Women’s education			0.454
None	21.2	16.2–29.5
Primary	28.7	25.0–32.7
Secondary +	27.8	18.8–39.2
Wealth index			0.007
Poorest	19.0	14.0–25.2
Poorer	22.2	17.4–27.8
Middle	35.3	26.3–45.5
Richer	33.1	26.0–41.1
Richest	26.8	21.1–33.5
Religion			0.014
Catholic	21.9	17.0–27.7
Protestant	27.3	22.3–32.9
Muslim	36.5	28.5–45.5
Pentecostal/others	33.0	24.7–42.4
Region			0.000
Central	31.9	26.7-37.5
East	31.3	25.7-37.6
North	10.5	7.4-14.7
West	31.0	23.1-40.2
Partner’s alcohol consumption			0.556
Never	28.9	25.1–33.0
Often	24.2	18.3–31.4
Sometimes	25.6	17.6–35.8
Partners education level			0.206
None	18.8	11.8–28.67
Primary	28.4	24.5–32.6
Secondary +	28.3	22.6–34.7

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