Research Article
Factors Associated with Condom Knowledge, Attitude, and Use among Black Heterosexual Men in Ontario, Canada
Table 1
Descriptive analysis of condom knowledge, attitude, and utilization among ACB men in Ontario.
| | Knowledge | Attitude | Regular condom user | Not good (22.30%) | Good (77.70%) | Not positive (68.23%) | Positive (31.77%) | No (37.57%) | Yes (62.43%) |
| Age, years | | | | | | | 15–19 | 5.80 | 3.41 | 5.10 | 2.05 | 1.47 | 3.98 | 20–29 | 26.81 | 29.41 | 28.03 | 30.14 | 16.18 | 36.73 | 30–39 | 34.06 | 33.13 | 33.44 | 33.56 | 34.56 | 30.97 | 40–49 | 20.29 | 18.58 | 19.11 | 19.18 | 24.26 | 17.26 | 50–59 | 6.52 | 9.60 | 8.28 | 8.90 | 13.24 | 7.08 | 60–64 | 4.35 | 3.72 | 3.50 | 4.79 | 5.15 | 3.54 | 65/+ | 2.17 | 2.17 | 2.55 | 1.37 | 5.15 | 0.44 |
| Currently married | | | | | | | No | 46.38 | 43.26 | 42.77 | 47.59 | 20.00 | 50.67 | Yes | 53.62 | 56.74 | 57.23 | 52.41 | 80.00 | 49.33 |
| Ethnicity | | | | | | | Black African | 67.26 | 53.55 | 61.34 | 48.80 | 54.92 | 51.31 | Black Caribbean | 19.47 | 23.76 | 19.33 | 29.60 | 24.59 | 24.08 | Black Canadian | 10.62 | 19.86 | 17.10 | 17.60 | 18.03 | 21.47 | Black American | 1.77 | 1.06 | 0.74 | 2.40 | 1.64 | 1.05 | Black Latin American | 0.88 | 1.77 | 1.49 | 1.60 | 0.82 | 2.09 |
| Education | | | | | | | None/pre-high school | 0.74 | 1.87 | 0.65 | 3.45 | 2.21 | 1.33 | High school | 19.26 | 12.77 | 13.87 | 16.55 | 12.50 | 11.56 | College/preuniversity | 25.19 | 35.20 | 30.00 | 36.55 | 35.29 | 34.22 | Completed university | 54.81 | 50.16 | 55.48 | 43.45 | 50.00 | 52.89 |
| Employment | | | | | | | No | 6.36 | 10.71 | 10.23 | 8.00 | 8.20 | 7.04 | Yes | 93.64 | 89.29 | 89.77 | 92.00 | 91.80 | 92.96 |
| Local status | | | | | | | Canadian citizen | 49.28 | 55.73 | 51.27 | 58.90 | 64.71 | 60.18 | Landed immigrant/permanent resident | 18.12 | 14.24 | 16.24 | 13.70 | 12.50 | 12.39 | Temporary work permit (temporary foreign worker) | 16.67 | 13.62 | 16.24 | 10.96 | 9.56 | 14.16 | Other | 15.94 | 16.41 | 16.24 | 16.44 | 13.24 | 13.27 |
| Self-reported health | | | | | | | Not good | 5.07 | 4.95 | 3.82 | 7.53 | 5.15 | 3.98 | Good | 94.93 | 95.05 | 96.18 | 92.47 | 94.85 | 96.02 |
| No. of partners in last 12 months | | | | | | | 1–3 | 84.21 | 80.84 | 85.59 | 73.95 | 91.91 | 75.66 | 4-5 | 6.32 | 9.20 | 5.51 | 14.29 | 2.94 | 11.50 | >5 | 9.47 | 9.96 | 8.90 | 11.76 | 5.15 | 12.83 |
| Sexual health visit in last 12 months | | | | | | | No | 89.22 | 88.93 | 88.76 | 89.47 | 90.18 | 88.27 | Yes | 10.78 | 11.07 | 11.24 | 10.53 | 9.82 | 11.73 |
| Experienced any difficulty in accessing | | | | | | | Yes | 24.51 | 12.50 | 13.73 | 20.34 | 14.29 | 18.09 | No | 75.49 | 87.50 | 86.27 | 79.66 | 88.71 | 81.91 |
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