Class risk variable proportions from the three-class LCA model among the sample of CAP007 adolescent females with HIV-negative serostatus in 2011 (n=1049)
Risk variable | Overall | Three-class model proportions | ||
Class 1 ‘No risk’ | Class 2 ‘High risk’ | Class 3 ‘Low risk’ | ||
HSV-2 status | ||||
Positive | 0.092 | 0.052 | 0.234 | 0.096 |
Negative | 0.908 | 0.948 | 0.766 | 0.904 |
Contraception | ||||
Condom use | 0.257 | 0.064 | 0.304 | 0.489 |
Other contraception | 0.194 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.511 |
None | 0.548 | 0.936 | 0.696 | 0.000 |
HIV knowledge | ||||
Low | 0.087 | 0.080 | 0.073 | 0.100 |
High | 0.913 | 0.920 | 0.927 | 0.900 |
Prior HIV testing | ||||
Yes | 0.884 | 0.883 | 0.900 | 0.879 |
No | 0.116 | 0.117 | 0.100 | 0.121 |
Financial dependence | ||||
Yes | 0.109 | 0.110 | 0.086 | 0.115 |
No | 0.891 | 0.890 | 0.914 | 0.885 |
Drug use (past year) | ||||
At least once | 0.037 | 0.000 | 0.137 | 0.048 |
Never | 0.963 | 1.000 | 0.863 | 0.952 |
Alcohol use (past year) | ||||
At least once | 0.154 | 0.068 | 0.457 | 0.158 |
Never | 0.846 | 0.932 | 0.543 | 0.842 |
Pregnancy (past year) | ||||
Yes | 0.041 | 0.014 | 0.037 | 0.078 |
No | 0.959 | 0.986 | 0.963 | 0.922 |
School absence (past year) | ||||
Illness | 0.304 | 0.325 | 0.310 | 0.276 |
Illness and other reason | 0.200 | 0.183 | 0.177 | 0.231 |
Other reason | 0.169 | 0.124 | 0.328 | 0.170 |
None | 0.327 | 0.369 | 0.185 | 0.323 |
Perceived HIV risk | ||||
High risk | 0.074 | 0.085 | 0.249 | 0.000 |
Low risk | 0.380 | 0.000 | 0.000 | 1.000 |
Not at risk | 0.545 | 0.915 | 0.751 | 0.000 |
Age | ||||
≥18 | 0.278 | 0.163 | 0.451 | 0.366 |
<18 | 0.722 | 0.837 | 0.549 | 0.634 |
n (%) | 1049 (100) | 547 (52.15) | 103 (9.82) | 399 (38.04) |
HIV status (2012) | ||||
Positive | 6 (1.10) | 3 (2.91) | 9 (2.26) | |
Negative | 541 (98.90) | 100 (97.09) | 390 (97.74) |
HSV-2, herpes simplex virus serotype-2; LCA, latent class analysis.