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Table 2 Association between HIV sexual risk behaviors and selected variables

From: Alcohol use, intimate partner violence, and HIV sexual risk behavior among young people in fishing communities of Lake Victoria, Uganda

Variables

Reported three or more HIV risk behaviors

 

Percent (%)

Total (n)

Chi2

District

  

0.26

 Mukono

56.6

251

 

 Namayingo

51.6

250

 

Sex

  

0.04

 Female

50.3

304

 

 Male

59.9

197

 

Age category

  

0.39

 15–19

50.8

126

 

 20–24

55.2

375

 

Education level

  

0.08

 None

63.3

79

 

 Primary

55.5

227

 

 Secondary or higher

48.7

195

 

In the last 12 months, respondent worked for payment in cash or kind

  

< 0.001

 No

42.7

178

 

 Yes

60.4

323

 

What is your main source of livelihood?

  

< 0.001

 Fishing

67.4

86

 

 Student

26.1

23

 

 Farming

58.0

88

 

 Petty Trade

54.8

126

 

 Others

48.9

178

 

Religion

  

0.09

 Catholic

56.6

198

 

 Anglican

53

132

 

 Pentecostal

42.5

80

 

 Muslim or others

60.4

91

 

Marital status

  

< 0.01

 Never Married

39.4

94

 

 Married

68.3

82

 

 Living together

53.9

267

 

 Formerly married

58.6

58

 

Have you ever given birth to or fathered a child?

  

< 0.01

 No

44.1

143

 

 Yes

58.1

358

 

In the last 12 months, have you had a sexual partner?

  

0.02

 No

34.4

32

 

 Yes

55.4

469

 

Total

54.1

501

 

Partner’s education level

  

0.17

 None

63.6

99

 

 Primary

54.1

181

 

 Secondary or higher

52.4

189

 

How long have you been in a relationship with your current partner in complete years

  

0.11

 Less than a year

50.4

117

 

 One to three years

60

250

 

 Four or more years

50

102

 

Partner drinks alcohol

  

0.02

 No

52.2

345

 

 Yes

64.5

124

 

Accused by a partner to have or has other sexual partners

  

< 0.001

 No

44.7

282

 

 Yes

66.2

219

 

Prevented HIV using two or more methods in the last 3 months

  

0.02

 No

60.8

181

 

 Yes

50.3

320

 

AUDIT score categories

  

0.002

 Non-drinkers

48.4

308

 

 Low risk drinkers

60

135

 

 At risk drinkers

60.7

28

 

 High risk drinkers

70

20

 

 Dependent drinkers

100

10

 

Drinks alcohol

  

0.001

 Non-drinkers

48.4

308

 

 Alcohol drinkers

63.2

193

 

Reported lifetime IPV by the HITS scale

  

0.049

 No

51.9

399

 

 Yes

62.7

102

 

Reported lifetime IPV by the WAST scale

  

0.015

 No

49.7

300

 

 Yes

60.7

201

 

Reported IPV by the AAS scale

  

0.019

 No

47.3

186

 

 Yes

58.1

315

 

Total

54.1

501

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