Prevalence and Factors Associated with Early Sexual Initiation among College Students in Southwest Ethiopia

Table 3

Factors associated with early sexual initiation of the college students in southwest Ethiopia.

Variables	Categories	Sexual initiation		COR (95% CI)	AOR (95% CI)	value
		Early	Late
Sex	Female	50	161	2.11 (1.29-3.46)	2.09 (1.17-3.75)	0.013
	Male	31	211	1	1
Smoking cigarette	No	68	338	1	1
	Yes	13	34	1.90 (0.95-3.79)	1.09 (0.48-2.46)	0.839
Drinking alcohol	Yes	26	91	1.46 (0.87-2.46)	0.84 (0.46-1.53)	0.571
	No	55	281	1	1
Khat chewing	Yes	40	50	6.28 (3.71-10.7)	7.05 (3.81-13.1)	<0.001
	No	41	322
Exposed to pornographic materials at  years	Yes	43	129	2.13 (1.31-2.3.47)	3.57 (1.94-6.59)	<0.001
	No	38	243	1	1
Knowledge of STDs	Poor	75	201	10.6 (4.52-25.04)	8.69 (3.52-21.5)	<0.001
	Good	6	171	1	1

CI: confidence interval; COR: crude odds ratio; AOR: adjusted odds ratio. Significant at value <0.01.