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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of lost to follow up and the remaining cohort: women and men

From: Associations between depressive symptoms, sexual behaviour and relationship characteristics: a prospective cohort study of young women and men in the Eastern Cape, South Africa

Variable

Lost to follow up

Mean (min-max)

Count (%)

Followed up

Mean (min-max)

Count (%)

p value

Lost to follow up

Mean (min-max)

Count (%)

Followed up

Mean (min-max)

Count (%)

p value

 

WOMEN

MEN

 

n = 293

n = 1002

 

n = 312

n = 976

 

Depression

55 (18%)

218 (21%)

0.621

48 (15%)

127 (13%)

0.730

Age

18 (15-23)

18 (15-26)

1.000

19.39 (15-23)

19.13 (15-26)

0.020

Socio-economic status score

-0.06 (-3.06, 3.31)

-0.01 (-3.06, 3.84)

0.573

-0.11 (-2.91, 3.52)

0.03 (-2.91, 3.52)

0.139

Adverse childhoods score

0.01 (-1.28, 3.81)

0.04 (-1.28, 6.34)

0.644

0.09 (-1.29, 5.09)

-0.03 (-1.29, 9.41)

0.066

Age at first sex

15 (9-21)

15 (6-22)

0.377

14 (6-20)

14 (5-23)

0.802

Educated up to Grade 10

241 (82%)

872 (87%)

0.048

253 (81%)

868 (88%)

0.004

Alcohol problem

15 (5%)

31 (3%)

0.186

81 (25%)

256 (26%)

0.857

First sex experience was willing

75 (25%)

267 (26%)

1.000

302 (96%)

948 (97%)

0.392

Ever used a condom

168 (57%)

635 (63%)

0.154

193 (61%)

646 (66%)

0.201

Ever been pregnant

60 (20%)

231 (23%)

0.619

52 (16%)

156 (16%)

1.000