The impact of HIV knowledge and attitudes on HIV testing acceptance among patients in an emergency department in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Table 3 Odds of HIV test acceptance by attitude category

	Unadj. OR	95% CI	p-value	Adj. OR^a	95% CI	p-value	Adj. OR^b	95% CI	p-value
Confidentiality (Believe test is confidential)	3.26	1.68–6.35	< 0.001^‡	3.01	1.52–5.93	0.001^†	2.48	1.15–5.37	0.021^†
Counseling & Testing (Approve of counseling before HIV testing)	1.14	0.481–2.74	0.757	1.17	0.478–2.84	0.736	2.08	0.718–6.01	0.177
Openness to HIV knowledge (Want to learn more about HIV)	0.977	0.486–1.97	0.949	0.939	0.454–1.94	0.865	1.47	0.600–3.61	0.398
Stigma around HIV testing (Low levels of stigma around HIV testing)	0.279	0.142–0.548	< 0.001^‡	0.285	0.143–0.566	< 0.001^‡	0.247	0.103–0.600	0.002^†
ED based HIV testing (Approve of ED-based testing)	1.86	0.842–4.11	0.125	1.61	0.711–3.64	0.253	0.975	0.388–2.45	0.957
Social support (High levels of social support)	2.68	1.15–6.23	0.022^†	2.88	1.20–6.95	0.018^†	2.38	0.914–6.20	0.076
Stigma around HIV infection (Low stigma around HIV infection)	1.00	0.469–2.14	0.993	0.923	0.421–2.02	0.842	1.08	0.426–2.74	0.868
Cost of HIV testing (Approve of free HIV testing)	1.70	0.151–19.1	0.668	1.39	0.106–18.0	0.803	1.08	0.065–17.8	0.959

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