Determinants of preventive sexual behaviours among first year university students in Beira city, central Mozambique: a cross-sectional study

Table 1 Participant’s characteristics and the relation with condom use and use of voluntary counselling and testing services

Characteristics	N	n (%)	Condom use OR (95% CI)	VCT service use OR (95% CI)
Gender	819
Men		346 (42.2)	0.76 (0.31–1.87)	1.10 (0.81–1.49)
Women		473 (57.8)
Age	808		0.06 (−0.38 to 0.50)^*	0.45 (0.29 to 0.60)^*
Men: mean (SD)		19.64 (2.06)
Women: mean (SD)		18.59 (1.65)
Attendance to religious activities	739
Frequently		265 (35.9)	1.29 (0.48–3.42)	1.28 (0.92–1.78)
Never/occasionally		474 (64.1)
Communication with father	588
Easily		313 (53.2)	2.29 (0.76–6.85)	1.07 (0.75–1.53)
Not easily		275 (46.8)
Discuss sexuality with father	593
Frequently		44 (7.4)	N/A	0.72 (0.37–1.42)
Never/rarely		549 (92.6)
Communication with mother	726
Easily		154 (21.2)	1.288 (0.48–3.40)	0.781 (0.52–1.17)
Not easily		572(78.8)
Discuss sexuality with mother	629
Frequently		189 (30.00)	4.634 (1.06–20.26)	1.43 (1.01–2.02)
Never/rarely		440 (70.00)
Have boy/girlfriend	816
Yes		693 (84.9)	N/A	2.40 (1.57–3.67)
No		123 (15.1)
Number of sexual partners	686		−0.08 (−0.52 to 0.32)	0.0 (−0.17 to 0.17)
Men: mean (SD)		3.8 (3.08)
Women: mean (SD)		2.1 (1.61)
Type of partnership	642
Important		397 (61.8)	1.45 (0.57–3.68)	2.38 (1.66–3.40)
Not important		245 (38.2)
Sexual debut	685
Yes		520 (75.9)	NA	2.63 (1.77–3.91)
No		165 (24.1)
Age at sexual debut	686		−28 (−0.73 to 0.17)^*	−0.20 (−0.01 ot 39)^*
Men: Mean (SD)		16.34 (2.46)
Women: Mean (SD)		17.23 (1.44)
Condition of last sexual intercourse	508
Both willing		474 (93.3)	3.14 (0.86–11.48)	1.25 (0.59–2.63)
Forced		34 (6.7)
Concerned with STI/HIV acquisition at the last sexual intercourse	516
Yes		344 (66.3)	1.05 (0.41–2.65)	1.274 (0.85–1.92)
No		175 (33.7)

^*Cohen’s d values instead of OR, because age is a continuous variable. Hence, also mean and SD have been reported as descriptive information instead of frequencies

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