Prevalence of Voluntary Counseling and Testing Utilization and Its Associated Factors among Bahirdar University Students

Table 2

Factors associated with VCT uptake, BDU, April 2012.

Variables	VCT utilization		Odds ratio and 𝑃 value
	Yes	No	COR (95% CI)	𝑃 value	AOR (95% CI)	𝑃 value
Marriage
Not married	262	450	1	0.045	1	0.219
Married	30	30	1.72 (1.01, 2.91)		1.50 (0.79, 2.86)
Having boy/girlfriend
No	176	351	1	<0.001	1	0.01
Yes	116	129	1.79 (1.32, 2.44)		1.59 (1.12, 2.26)
Origin of residence
Rural	110	203	1	0.20	1	0.005
Urban	182	277	1.21 (0.90, 1.63)		1.63 (1.16, 2.30)
Ethnicity
Amhara	225	386	1	0.036	1	0.214
Oromo	40	45	1.52 (0.97, 2.41)		1.31 (0.79, 2.2)
Tigrie	15	14	1.84 (0.87, 3.88)		1.74 (0.77, 4.0)
Others	12	35	0.59 (0.30, 1.16)		0.65 (0.31, 1.36)
Faculty
Engineering	121	184	1	0.081	1	0.296
Natural science	45	83	0.82 (0.54, 1.27)		0.98 (0.57, 1.67)
Medicine	3	26	0.18 (0.05, 0.59)		0.25 (0.06, 1.04)
Agriculture	21	24	1.3 (0.71, 2.5)		0.93 (0.44, 1.96)
FBE	40	67	0.91 (0.58, 1.43)		1.30 (0.71, 2.35)
Social science	62	96	0.98 (0.66, 1.46)		1.33 (0.79, 2.24)
Year of study
First year	50	149	1	<0.001	1	<0.001
Second year	116	124	2.79 (1.85, 4.19)		2.71 (1.74, 4.22)
Third year	97	178	1.62 (1.08, 2.43)		1.35 (0.87, 2.10)
Fourth year	17	20	2.53 (1.23, 5.21)		3.54 (1.56, 8.06)
Fifth year	12	9	3.97 (1.58, 9.99)		5.87 (2.14, 16.07)
Perceived at risk
No	141	284	1	0.009	1	0.117
Yes	137	172	1.60 (1.19, 2.2)		1.43 (1.02, 2.0)
Do not know	14	24	1.18 (0.6, 2.3)		1.16 (0.54, 2.5)
Perceived benefit
No	6	18	1	0.19	1	0.202
Yes	286	462	1.86 (0.73, 4.73)		1.92 (0.71, 5.2)
Knew someone who was infected/died with HIV
No	48	200	1	<0.001	1	<0.001
Yes	244	280	3.63 (2.53, 5.2)		2.15 (1.44, 3.22)
Having a friend who got VCT
No	61	238	1	<0.001	1	<0.001
Yes	231	242	3.72 (2.7, 5.2)		2.79 (1.99, 4.11)
Discussed with parents HIV
No	80	235	1	<0.001	1	0.001
Yes	212	245	2.54 (1.86, 3.45)		1.83 (1.26, 2.66)
Stigmatized attitude
Yes	112	229	1	0.011	1	0.269
No	180	251	1.47 (1.09, 197)		1.21 (0.86, 1.70)