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Table 3 Multivariable regression of HIV risk on alcohol use, IPV and selected explanatory variables

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

 

Model (1)

 

Model (2)

 

Unadjusted Odds Ratios (OR)

95% Confidence Intervals (CIs)

Adjusted Odds Ratios (aOR)

95% Confidence Intervals (CIs)

Drinks alcohol (rc = no)

1.83**

1.27–2.65

1.83**

1.18–2.85

Reported lifetime abuse – HITS scale+

1.56*

0.99–2.44

  

Reported lifetime abuse – WAST scale

1.57*

1.09–2.25

1.09

0.69–1.72

Reported lifetime abuse – AAS scale++

1.54*

1.07–2.22

  

What is your age in complete years?

  

0.99

0.90–1.09

Sex (rc = females)

  

1.00

0.59–1.68

Education level of respondent (rc = None)

 Primary

  

0.65

0.36–1.18

 Secondary or higher

  

0.62

0.32–1.21

 In the last 12 months, have you done any work for which you received a payment in cash or kind

  

2.13**

1.30–3.49

Religion (rc = Catholic)

 Anglican

  

0.81

0.49–1.33

 Pentecostal

  

0.61

0.34–1.09

 Muslim

  

1.51

0.76–3.00

 Others

  

1.23

0.53–2.86

Marital status (rc = never married)

 Married

  

2.29*

1.08–4.86

 Living together

  

1.54

0.81–2.94

 Formerly married

  

1.56

0.65–3.74

 Have you ever given birth to or fathered a child?

  

1.32

0.77–2.27

 Accused by the current partner to have or reported having other sexual partners

  

2.06**

1.33–3.19

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

  

0.70

0.46–1.09

Observations

501

 

501

 
  1. + excluded because of borderline significance; Excluded because of multicollinearity