Prevalence and Factors Associated with Contraceptive Use among HIV-Infected Women of Reproductive Age Attending Infectious Disease Clinic at Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, Northern Uganda

Table 4

Crude and adjusted odds ratios for factors associated with contraceptive utilization among HIV infected women of reproductive attending Infectious Disease Clinic, Gulu Regional Referral Hospital.

Variables	Freq (n)	Contraceptive use		Bivariate analysis			Multivariate analysis
		Yes ()	No ()	cOR	95 CI	P-value	aOR	95 CI	P-value
Age groups
18 - 30	254	105 (68)	149 (53)	1			1
31 - 49	180	50 (32)	130 (47%)	0.55	0.36 - 0.82	0.004	0.53	0.33 - 0.84	0.007
Marital status
Single/separated/widowed	158	27 (17)	131 (47)	1			1
Married	276	128 (83)	148 (58)	4.2	2.60 - 6.76	<0.001	2.68	1.54 - 4.65	<0.001
Educational level
No formal education	52	14 (9)	38 (14)	1			1
Primary	258	85 (55)	173 (62)	1.33	0.69 - 2.59	0.397	0.91	0.43 - 1.90	0.797
Secondary	117	55 (35)	62 (22)	2.41	1.18 - 4.91	0.016	1.08	0.47 - 2.44	0.862
Post Secondary	7	1 (1)	6 (2)	0.45	0.05 - 4.10	0.481	0.12	0.01 - 2.90	0.192
Religion
Catholic	306	100 (64)	206 (74)	1			1
Protestants	110	45 (29)	65 (23)	1.43	0.91 - 2.23	0.121	1.36	0.80 - 2.32	0.259
Moslems	16	9 (6)	7 (3)	2.65	0.96 - 7.32	0.06	2.54	0.76 - 8.42	0.128
Others	2	1 (1)	1 (0)	2.06	0.13 - 33.27	0.611	0.64	0.06 - 7.56	0.726
Occupation
Peasant Farmer	149	37 (24)	112 (40)	1			1
Civil servant	24	12 (8)	12 (4)	3.03	1.25 - 7.31	0.014	2.52	0.67 - 9.49	0.173
Business	175	84 (54)	91 (33)	2.79	1.74 - 4.50	<0.001	1.57	0.88 - 2.82	0.126
Unemployed	78	18 (12)	60 (22)	0.91	0.48 - 1.73	0.769	1.38	0.65 - 2.94	0.402
Others	8	4 (2)	4 (1)	3.03	0.72 - 12.71	0.13	3.46	0.69 - 17.38	0.132
Have any child of your own
Yes	380	151 (97)	229 (82)				1
No	54	4 (3)	50 (18)	0.12	0.04 - 0.34	<0.001	0.16	0.05 - 0.49	0.002
Monthly income
$0-34	258	64 (41)	194 (70)				1
$35-250	176	91 (59)	85 (30)	3.25	2.16 - 4.88	<0.001	2.38	1.39 - 4.09	0.002

cOR: crude odds ratio; aOR: adjusted odds ratio.