Attitudes to routine HIV counselling and testing, and knowledge about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey among antenatal attendees

Table 4 Predictors of male partner permission to test for HIV and positive attitude to HIV testing among 388 new antenatal attendees, Mbale, Uganda

Participants' characteristics	Number n (%)	Male partner permission to test for HIV		Positive attitude to HIV-testing^†
		Unadj.OR (95% CI)	Adj.OR (95% CI)	Unadj.OR (95% CI)	Adj.OR (95% CI)
Age groups (years)
15-24	220 (56.7)	1.0	1.0	2.7 (0.5-14.7)	2.5 (0.3-22.3)
25 or more	168 (43.3)	1.2 (0.8-1.8)	1.0 (0.7-1.6)	1.0	1.0
Education level
No or incomplete primary	134 (34.5)	1.0	1.0
Completed primary	152 (39.2)	1.2 (0.8-1.9)	1.2 (0.7-2.0)
Completed secondary or more	102 (26.3)	2.7 (1.5-4.7)	3.0 (1.5-5.9) ^*
Socio-economic status
Poorest (quintiles: 4^th-5^th)	159 (41.0)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Least poor (quintiles: 1^st-3^rd)	229 (59.0)	1.5 (1.0-2.2)	1.2 (0.7-1.9)	2.9 (0.5-16.2)	1.9 (0.3-12.6)
Ethnic group
Bagisu	247 (63.7)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Non-Bagisu	141 (36.3)	1.6 (1.0-2.4)	1.6 (1.0-2.5)	2.9 (0.3-25.0)	2.6 (0.3-23.9)
Marital status
Single/divorced/separated	35 (9.0)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Married/cohabiting	353 (91.0)	4.6 (2.0-10.5)	5.6 (2.4-13.3) ^‡	2.0 (0.3-18.0)	5.4 (0.4-73.1)
Religion
Christian	234 (60.3)	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Moslem	154 (39.7)	1.3 (0.9-2.0)	1.4 (0.9-2.2)	1.3 (0.2-7.3)	1.2 (0.2-7.0)
Occupation
Not getting a salary	337 (86.9)	1.0	1.0
Salaried	51 (13.1)	1.9 (1.0-3.6)	1.1 (0.5-2.3)
Education level
No or incomplete primary	134 (34.5)			1.0	1.0
Completed primary or more	254 (65.5)			3.9 (0.7-21.4)	2.9 (0.4-19.7)

I. Unadj. OR: Unadjusted Odds Ratio, Adj. OR: Adjusted Odds Ratio, CI: Confidence Interval
II. P -value: * p < 0.01, ‡ p < 0.00. P -value < 0.05 was statistically significant.
III. †Pregnant women who had a positive attitude to routine antenatal HIV testing were 98.5%. Hence there were too few cases in some cells giving rise to the wide confidence intervals of the odds ratios and inability to calculate the odds ratio for occupation.
IV. The goodness-of-fit test (Omnibus Tests of Model Coefficients) of the final model for male partner permission to test for HIV was significant [Chi-square statistic (χ²) = 41.434, degrees of freedom (df) = 8, p = 0.000] and the Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test was not significant [χ² = 5.563, df = 8, p = 0.696] as indicators of model appropriateness.
V. The goodness-of-fit test (Omnibus Tests of Model Coefficients) of the final model for HIV testing was significant [χ² = 11.025, df = 8, p = 0.000] and the Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test was not significant [χ² = 5.637, df = 8, p = 0.688] as indicators of model appropriateness.