Prevalence of Bacterial Vaginosis and Its Association with Risk Factors among Nonpregnant Women: A Hospital Based Study

Table 3

Distribution of cases according to behavior characteristics.

	Bacterial vaginosis			value
	Number (160)	Positive number (%)	Negative number (%)
Smoking
Never	140	36 (25.71)	104 (74.29)	0.17
Daily	10	3 (30)	7 (70)
Occasional	10	0 (0)	10 (100)
Alcohol intake
Never	129	31 (24)	98 (76)	0.37
Daily	13	5 (38.5)	8 (61.5)
Occasional	18	3 (16.7)	15 (83.3)
Diet
Veg	13	2 (15.4)	11 (84.6)	0.43
Nonveg	147	37 (25.2)	110 (74.8)
Condom use
Never	129	29 (22.5)	100 (77.5)	0.39
Daily	7	3 (42.9)	4 (57.1)
Sometime	24	7 (29.2)	17 (70.8)
Douching
Never	38	3 (7.9)	35 (92.1)	0.015
Daily	84	27 (32.1)	57 (67.9)
Sometime	38	9 (23.7)	29 (76.3)

value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.