Male Partners Involvement in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Services in Southern Central Ethiopia: In Case of Lemo District, Hadiya Zone
Table 2
Showing bivariate and multivariable logistic regression of factors associated with male partners’ involvement in PMTCT of HIV among males in Lemo district, Hadiya Zone, southern central Ethiopia, 2015.
Variables
Male partner involvement in PMTCT of HIV services
High
Low
COR (95% C.I)
AOR (95% C.I)
value
Number (%)
Number (%)
Residence
Urban
10 (43.5)
13 (56.5)
1.81 (0.77, 4.24)
3.08 (0.91, 10.42)
0.071
Rural
113 (29.9)
265 (70.1)
1
Educational status
Illiterate
5 (27.8)
13 (72.2)
1.28 (0.42, 3.86)
0.72 (0.19, 2.64)
0.619
Able to read and write
6 (23.1)
20 (76.9)
0.99 (0.37, 2.70)
0.49 (0.14, 1.74)
0.276
Grades 1–4
5 (8.6)
53 (91.4)
0.31 (0.12, 0.85)
0.27 (0.08, 0.90)
0. 033
Grades 5–8
31 (23.1)
103 (76.9)
1.41 (0.76, 2.61)
0.76 (0.35, 1.64)
0.22
Grades 9-10
25 (29.8)
59 (70.2)
5.61 (3.09, 10.33)
3.19 (0.54, 6.64)
0.488
Grade 11 and higher
51 (63)
30 (30.0)
1
Occupation
Farmer
62 (22.5)
214 (77.5)
1
Governmental employee
30 (83.3)
6 (16.7)
17.26 (6.87, 43.35)
1.75 (0.47, 6.47)
0.403
Merchant
28 (37.3)
47 (62.7)
2.06 (1.19, 3.55)
0.67 (0.31, 1.46)
0.413
Daily laborer
3 (21.7)
11 (78.9)
0.94 (0.26, 3.48)
1.11 (0.17, 7.39)
0.915
Monthly income
≤1170 ETB
11 (10.6)
93 (89.4)
0.19 (0.1, 0.38)
0.16 (0.1, 0.4)
0.000
>1170 ETB
112 (37.7)
185 (62.3)
1
Sociocultural factors
High cultural
42 (10.6)
176 (44.2)
1
Low cultural
80 (20.1)
100 (25.1)
3.35 (2.14, 5.24)
4.09 (2.28, 7.34)
0.000
Level of knowledge
High knowledge
96 (30.7)
89 (69.3)
7.55 (4.60, 12.40)
6.65 (3.67, 12.08)
0.000
Low knowledge
27 (6.7)
189 (47.1)
1
Service related factors
Poor service
44 (11.0)
176 (44.1)
1
Better service
78 (19.5)
101 (25.3)
3.09 (1.98, 4.81)
3.17 (1.78, 5.63)
0.000
Note. = statistically significant at (); 1 = reference group.
