Determinants of use of mobile phones for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) education and prevention among adolescents and young adult population in Ghana: implications of public health policy and interventions design

Table 2 Univariate probit regression on predictors of respondents’ likelihood of using mobile phones for STIs education and prevention

	Dependent Variable: use of mobile phone for STIs education and prevention^**
Independent variables	Obs.	Coef.	Std. Err	95%[Conf.	Int.]
Age
18-19 years	29	0.09	0.30	−0.50	0.69
20 years or more	221	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Gender
Male	149	1.11^†	0.19	0.74	1.47
Female	101	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
^aEducational level
Diploma	46	−0.05	0.22	−0.49	0.38
Degree levels (100–400)	204	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Programme of study
Health sciences	83	−0.16	0.19	−0.53	0.22
Other programmes	167	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Mobile phone ownership
Yes	230	0.05	0.31	−0.55	0.65
No	20	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Mobile phone type
Smart phone	144	0.46^†	0.19	0.10	0.83
GSM phone	106	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Frequency of mobile phone usage
Every two hours or less	106	−0.28	0.19	−0.65	0.08
Every three hours or more	144	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Probit regression
Obs	250
Wald chi2(7)	41.58
Prov>chi2	0.000
Pseudo R2	0.16
Log pseudolikelihood	− 126.20

Source: Field Data (2016)
Legend: †p < .05 (probit regression test, VCE (robust); ^aStudy Level (In Ghana this represents the 4 years of University eduction required to complete a first degree or Bachelor degree; Diploma studies are relatively shorter usually 1 or 2 years ending up in the award of a Diploma, which is lower than a Bachelor Degree); ^**In this context meant, students who self-reported whether or not they use their mobile phones for the purpose of accessing educational materials on STIs and their prevention. This variable had a binary response outcome “1 = Yes” or “0 = No”. The limitation is that there was no independent verification of the study participants’ responses

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