Early Sexual Debut among Ghanaian Women: Correlates and Psychological Effect

Table 6

Binary logistic regression for predictors of early sexual debut.

		Sig.	AOR	95% C.I. for AOR
				Lower	Upper
≥35 years		0.000
15-24 years	0.409	0.000	1.506	1.280	1.771
25-34 years	-0.045	0.523	0.956	0.834	1.097
Ever attended school (yes/no)	-0.686	0.000	0.503	0.426	0.595
Area (urban/rural)	-0.159	0.029	0.853	0.740	0.984
Single		0.000
Married	0.209	0.003	1.232	1.072	1.416
Cohabitation	0.359	0.000	1.431	1.192	1.718
Upper West		0.001
Western	0.083	0.603	1.087	0.794	1.487
Central	-0.007	0.968	0.993	0.716	1.378
Greater Accra	-0.398	0.012	0.672	0.492	0.916
Volta	0.196	0.295	1.217	0.843	1.757
Eastern	-0.082	0.619	0.921	0.666	1.274
Ashanti	-0.041	0.783	0.960	0.719	1.283
Brong Ahafo	-0.138	0.386	0.871	0.639	1.189
Northern	-0.060	0.680	0.942	0.708	1.253
Upper East	0.201	0.137	1.223	0.938	1.595
Other tribes		0.223
Akan	0.038	0.748	1.039	0.822	1.314
GA/Dangme	-0.058	0.703	0.943	0.700	1.272
Ewe	-0.150	0.336	0.861	0.634	1.168
Guan	0.158	0.428	1.171	0.793	1.730
Gruma	0.258	0.186	1.294	0.883	1.895
Mole Dagbani	-0.147	0.254	0.863	0.671	1.111
Grusi	0.039	0.833	1.040	0.724	1.492
Mande	0.106	0.794	1.112	0.500	2.473
Health insurance (yes/no)	-0.118	0.046	0.889	0.792	0.998
Disability (yes/no)	0.046	0.648	1.047	0.860	1.275
Richest		0.022
Poorest	0.367	0.005	1.443	1.117	1.863
Second	0.322	0.005	1.380	1.105	1.724
Middle	0.271	0.005	1.311	1.085	1.584
Fourth	0.204	0.017	1.227	1.038	1.450
Watch TV almost every day		0.490
Not at all	-0.107	0.222	0.899	0.758	1.067
Less than once a week	-0.031	0.756	0.969	0.795	1.182
At least once a week	0.042	0.616	1.043	0.885	1.228
Ever used internet (yes/no)	-0.542	0.000	0.582	0.495	0.683
Alcohol ever use (yes/no)	0.278	0.000	1.320	1.173	1.486
Cigarette ever use (yes/no)	0.948	0.002	2.580	1.435	4.640
Ever use contraceptive (yes/no)	0.272	0.000	1.313	1.159	1.488
Done FGM (yes/no)	0.199	0.145	1.221	0.933	1.596
Ever heard of HIV (yes/no)	-0.531	0.002	0.588	0.419	0.824