Knowledge, Perception, and Practice of Safe Medical Circumcision on HIV Infection Risk Reduction among Undergraduate Students of a Public University in Northern Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 6

Association of sociodemographic characteristics with practice of safe medical circumcision.

Factor	SMC practice		Chi-square	value
	Yes, (%)	No, (%)
Participants’ age
18-20	18 (5.0)	18 (9.2)	4.613	0.470
21-25	292 (81.1)	156 (79.6)
26-30	12 (3.3)	6 (3.1)
31-35	19 (5.3)	8 (4.1)
36-40	7 (1.9)	4 (2.0)
41-45	12 (3.3)	4 (2.0)
Academic year of study
One	100 (27.8)	74 (37.8)	9.805	0.020
Two	116 (32.2)	68 (34.7)
Three	134 (37.2)	50 (25.5)
Four	10 (2.8)	4 (2.0)
Faculty
Public health	40 (11.1)	30 (15.3)	16.604	0.050
Nursing and midwifery	50 (13.9)	19 (9.7)
Medicine	41 (11.4)	12 (6.1)
Computing and information science	33 (9.2)	23 (11.7)
Education	91 (25.3)	71 (36.2)
Management science	105 (29.2)	41 (20.9)
Religion
Catholic	142 (39.4)	34 (22.5)	35.001	<0.001
Anglican	109 (30.0)	64 (32.7)
Pentecostal	50 (13.9)	54 (27.6)
Moslem	24 (6.7)	4 (2.0)
None	6 (1.7)	10 (5.1)
Others	30 (8.3)	20 (10.2)
Know facility that does SMC
Yes	334 (92.8)	150 (76.5)	29.717	<0.001
No	26 (7.2)	46 (23.5)

Significant at 95% confidence interval.