Comprehensive Knowledge of HIV and AIDS among Ghanaian Adults from 1998 to 2014: A Multilevel Logistic Regression Model Approach

Table 1

Percentage distribution of categories within variables with comprehensive knowledge (CK) of HIV and AIDS.

Variables	1998	2003	2008	2014	All years
Region
Western	10.93	34.36	34.70	34.17	29.90
Central	7.87	28.74	44.04	41.26	32.87
Greater Accra	16.62	43.99	52.86	49.92	44.18
Volta	7.92	32.55	39.13	25.97	27.26
Eastern	10.40	34.83	35.99	32.23	29.52
Ashanti	8.88	39.34	39.64	32.14	33.14
Brong Ahafo	17.51	41.71	39.54	34.24	35.52
Northern	3.04	18.63	21.16	17.92	17.87
Upper East	14.91	40.46	40.92	28.10	32.99
Upper West	3.18	20.39	27.39	18.66	19.04
Ethnicity
Akan	11.70	38.99	42.53	38.94	35.26
Ga/Dangme	12.93	32.89	41.16	42.47	34.63
Ewe	10.45	33.23	38.86	35.05	30.88
Guan	8.00	47.21	37.81	31.89	36.05
Mole-Dagbani	10.46	28.85	33.90	27.74	28.34
Grusi	7.47	43.25	40.38	30.63	32.54
Gruma	10.51	17.09	20.89	15.02	16.05
Hausa	14.42	49.64	38.00	16.86	29.58
Others	6.20	30.63	40.11	34.12	28.10
Religion
No religion/other	6.78	23.83	26.97	19.50	19.48
Catholic	12.43	37.80	40.80	35.29	33.08
Anglican	24.64	55.01	53.56	46.25	47.61
Methodist	14.55	38.18	41.24	41.56	35.44
Presbyterian	13.44	37.93	46.75	41.38	35.66
Traditionalist	8.21	19.68	23.20	11.38	15.97
Other Christian	10.54	38.19	41.53	36.95	34.85
Muslim	8.96	30.79	34.07	30.45	29.00
Education
No education	5.75	19.70	20.51	15.25	15.88
Primary	6.61	22.37	27.77	21.22	20.84
Secondary	13.64	43.85	44.76	39.61	38.01
Higher	30.71	70.86	71.13	67.89	66.14
Occupation
Not working	10.57	43.69	40.34	34.50	34.35
Working	11.24	33.47	39.10	35.34	32.04
Contraceptive
Not using	9.34	33.10	37.52	34.11	30.59
Using	18.24	43.32	45.65	38.54	38.87
Place of residence
Urban	13.81	44.87	48.11	40.88	40.4
Rural	9.52	27.47	31.28	28.47	25.24
Marital status
Never married	10.13	42.40	43.18	38.73	37.22
Married	10.55	31.68	37.42	34.64	30.45
Living together	13.62	36.40	37.81	28.33	28.99
Widowed	6.13	25.78	30.98	30.05	25.80
Divorced	12.84	27.97	33.50	39.66	29.70
Not together	15.72	37.10	35.33	29.76	29.90
Variables	1998	2003	2008	2014	All years
Gender
Male	11.95	39.82	42.44	39.40	37.7
Female	10.81	32.01	36.45	35.17	29.24
Reads newspaper
No	8.04	29.94	34.80	32.44	28.83
Yes	20.26	58.46	56.55	55.80	49.13
Listens to radio
No	6.13	20.93	28.47	29.56	23.2
Yes	13.81	38.96	41.61	38.73	36.08
Watches Tv
No	7.08	27.10	28.08	28.88	24.67
Yes	14.76	45.15	47.69	40.13	39.36
Literacy
Reads easily	14.61	50.64	52.59	47.26	43.09
Reads with difficulty	7.91	29.92	36.59	30.49	31.26
Cannot read	5.81	22.40	25.03	19.58	19.68
Age of the respondent
15–19	9.26	37.67	37.42	30.20	30.86
20–24	12.21	41.39	44.15	37.15	35.64
25–29	12.11	36.46	43.54	41.20	35.62
30–34	11.04	32.36	41.02	38.06	32.89
35–39	12.80	30.44	35.57	36.16	30.95
40–44	8.45	34.38	35.09	30.89	29.37
45–49	11.04	30.37	32.77	30.08	27.98
50–54	10.16	39.68	41.76	36.73	36.76
55–59	14.26	39.28	42.34	32.16	35.23
Age of the HH head
<20	6.64	25.65	35.01	24.76	23.15
20–29	13.52	38.58	43.82	39.95	36.07
30–39	11.94	33.58	39.12	37.11	32.79
40–49	8.84	34.61	36.18	33.17	30.63
50–59	13.29	40.74	42.45	33.10	34.37
60–69	8.30	32.57	37.82	33.88	30.38
70–79	8.77	34.55	35.38	29.84	29.52
Above 80	9.02	32.79	31.44	32.94	28.14