HIV/AIDS knowledge and uptake of HIV counselling and testing among undergraduate private university students in Accra, Ghana

Table 4 Logistic regression of the predictors of ever tested for HIV and intention to test for HIV in the future

Variables	Coefficients (β)	SE	Odds Ratio (OR)	95% CI	p-value
Have ever tested for HIV
Age (17–20 years vs. others)	0.521	0.27	1.68	1.01 – 2.850	0.050
Marital Status (single vs. others)	1.770	0.61	5.87	1.76 – 19.56	0.004
Religion	−1.596	0.80	0.20	0.04 – 0.96	0.045
Knowledge of a place to get tested	2.00	0.58	7.39	2.38 – 22.98	0.001
Routes of HIV Transmission	−0. 69	0.34	2.00	1.03 – 3.87	0.040
Willingness to test for HIV in the future
Gender	1.12	0.25	3.20	1.96 – 5.24	< 0.000
Marital Status (single vs. others)	0.13	0.28	1.14	0.66 – 1.96	0.636

Dependent variables: yes = 1, no = 0.
Independent variables: age (17–20 years = 1, others = 0) marital status (single = 1, others = 0), sex (male = 1, female = 2), religion (Christian =1, Muslim = 0), knowledge of a place to get tested (yes = 1, no = 0), routes of HIV transmission (two routes of transmission = 1, others = 0).

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