Table 1
Characteristics influencing uptake of opportunistic HIV testing in GUM clinic attenders not requesting an HIV test
| Odds ratio (95% CI)* | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | Patients seen (n=858) | No (%) accepting HIV test (n=259) | p Value | Unadjusted | Adjusted† |
| *Odds ratio below 1 denotes lower levels of uptake of HIV testing. | |||||
| †The logistic regression model includes age, sex, ethnic group, marital status, presence of known risk factor for HIV, symptomatic STI, and status of doctor, and each variable is thus adjusted for all the other variables included in the model. | |||||
| ‡χ2 for heterogeneity. | |||||
| Age | |||||
| <20 | 137 | 30 (21.9) | 0.141‡ | 0.63 (0.32 to 1.27) | 0.43 (0.20 to 0.98) |
| 20–24 | 237 | 80 (33.8) | 1.16 (0.63 to 2.15) | 0.70 (0.34 to 1.47) | |
| 25–29 | 298 | 96 (32.2) | 1.08 (0.59 to 1.98) | 0.66 (0.33 to 1.32) | |
| 30–34 | 127 | 35 (27.6) | 0.87 (0.44 to 1.71) | 0.60 (0.29 to 1.25) | |
| 35 or over | 59 | 18 (30.5) | 1 | 1 | |
| Sex | |||||
| M | 414 | 146 (35.3) | 0.002 | 1 | 1 |
| F | 444 | 113 (25.5) | 0.63 (0.46 to 0.85) | 0.65 (0.47 to 0.89) | |
| Marital status | |||||
| Other | 751 | 240 (32.0) | 0.004 | 1 | 1 |
| Married | 107 | 19 (17.8) | 0.47 (0.26 to 0.79) | 0.48 (0.30 to 0.77) | |
| Risk factor for HIV | |||||
| Disclosed | 201 | 94 (46.8) | <0.001 | 1 | 1 |
| Not disclosed | 657 | 165 (25.1) | 0.38 (0.27 to 0.54) | 0.39 (0.28 to 0.55) | |
| Doctor status | |||||
| Full time | 501 | 169 (33.7) | 0.009 | 1 | 1 |
| Part time | 357 | 90 (25.2) | 0.66 (0.48 to 0.91) | 0.65 (0.47 to 0.89) | |
| Symptoms of STI | |||||
| Absent | 316 | 122 (38.6) | <0.001 | 1 | 1 |
| Present | 542 | 137 (25.3) | 0.54 (0.39 to 0.73) | 0.49 (0.36 to 0.67) | |
| Ethnic group | |||||
| White | 788 | 246 (31.2) | 0.04 | 1 | 1 |
| Non-white | 70 | 13 (18.6) | 0.52 (0.26 to 0.97) | 0.53 (0.27 to 1.03) | |
