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Table 4 Predictors of willingness to distribute HIVST to sexual partners and peers

From: Outcomes of a community-led online-based HIV self-testing demonstration among cisgender men who have sex with men and transgender women in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective cohort study

 

Willingness to distribute

Crude OR

p-value

Adjusted OR

p-value

n

/

N (% among distributed)

OR

(95% CI)

 

aOR

(95% CI)

 

Age group

 18–24

100

/

242

(41.3%)

1.00

  

–

  

 25 and over

198

/

404

(49.0%)

1.36

(0.99–1.89)

0.058*

–

–

–

 Missing

1

/

647

(0.2%)

      

Gender identity

 Cis-MSM

280

/

589

(47.5%)

1.00

  

–

  

 Transgender woman

18

/

57

(31.6%)

0.51

(0.28–0.90)

0.023*

–

–

–

 Missing

1

/

647

(0.2%)

      

Employment

 Unemployed

61

/

143

(42.7%)

1.00

     

 Employed

236

/

501

(47.1%)

1.20

(0.82–1.75)

0.347

   

 Missing

2

/

647

(0.3%)

      

Location

    Rural

223

/

447

(49.9%)

1.00

  

1.00

  

 Urban

75

/

199

(37.7%)

1.65

(1.17–2.32)

0.004*

1.64

(1.15–2.36)

0.007**

 Missing

1

/

647

(0.2%)

      

Number of male sex partners in the past 12 months

 Less than 3

83

/

189

(43.9%)

1.00

     

 3 or more

214

/

454

(47.1%)

1.14

(0.81–1.60)

0.456

   

 Missing

4

/

647

(0.6%)

      

First-time tester

 No

172

/

294

(58.5%)

1.00

  

1.00

  

 Yes

126

/

352

(35.8%)

0.40

(0.29–0.54)

< 0.00*

0.45

(0.32–0.62)

< 0.00**

 Missing

1

/

647

(0.2%)

      

Source of information about HIVST

 Social network

281

/

616

(45.6%)

1.00

     

 Partner notification

13

/

23

(56.5%)

1.55

(0.67–3.68)

0.306

   

 Provider-initiated

4

/

7

(57.1%)

1.59

(0.35–8.13)

0.546

   

 Missing

1

/

647

(0.2%)

      

Community quarantine restrictions

 None to minimal

43

/

348

(12.4%)

1.00

  

1.00

  

 Maximum

108

/

298

(36.2%)

4.03

(2.73–6.05)

< 0.00*

3.60

(2.41–5.45)

< 0.00**

 Missing

1

/

647

(0.2%)

      
  1. c statistic = 0.70; Hosmer-Lemeshow χ2 = 1.1911, df = 8, p-value = 0.9967
  2. * significant at < 0.25 for crude odds ratio (cOR); ** significant at < 0.05 for adjusted odds ratio (aOR)