Research Article
Effect of Health Education on Willingness to Undergo HIV Screening among Antenatal Attendees in a Teaching Hospital in North Central Nigeria
Table 1
Sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents.
| | Variables | Study group (%)
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| | Age (in years) | | | | ≤19 | 1 (0.8) | 2 (1.7) | | 20–29 | 84 (69.4) | 84 (72.4) | | 30–39 | 35 (29.0) | 26 (22.4) | | ≥40 | 1 (0.8) | 4 (3.5) | | Marital status | | | | Single | 24 (19.9) | 19 (16.4) | | Married | 88 (72.7) | 84 (72.4) | | Cohabiting | 9 (7.4) | 13 (11.2) | | Religion | | | | Christianity | 52 (43.0) | 35 (30.2) | | Islam | 69 (57.0) | 81 (69.8) | | Educational level | | | | None | 3 (2.4) | 4 (3.5) | | Primary | 26 (21.5) | 20 (17.2) | | Secondary | 44 (36.4) | 40 (34.5) | | Postsecondary | 48 (39.7) | 52 (44.8) | | Ethnic group | | | | Yoruba | 105 (86.8) | 108 (93.1) | | Ibo | 4 (3.3) | 2 (1.7) | | Hausa | 1 (0.8) | 0 (0.0) | | Others | 11 (9.1) | 6 (5.2) | | Occupation | | | | Artisan | 25 (20.7) | 18 (15.5) | | Trading | 38 (31.4) | 40 (34.5) | | Teaching | 10 (8.3) | 12 (10.3) | | Student | 23 (19.0) | 26 (22.4) | | Housewife | 13 (10.8) | 8 (6.9) | | Others | 12 (9.8) | 12 (10.4) | | Parity | | | | First time | 48 (39.7) | 44 (37.9) | | Second time | 34 (28.0) | 26 (22.4) | | Third time | 14 (11.6) | 25 (21.6) | | More than three times | 25 (20.7) | 21 (18.1) |
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