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Table 6 Intimate relationship characteristics associated with concurrent UAI in the past six months

From: Intimate relationship characteristics as determinants of HIV risk among men who have sex with regular male sex partners: a cross-sectional study in Guangzhou, China

Factors

Concurrent UAI (had UAI with both regular male sex partners and non-regular male sex partners)

Row% (n/n1)

OR (95% CI)

AOR (95% CI)

ORm (95% CI)

Had multiple RP in the past six months

 No

17.5 (48/274)

1

1

 

 Yes

27.3 (36/132)

1.77 (1.08,2.89)*

1.67 (1.00,2.79)†

NS

Expectation for this relationship

 Length of the relationship

   < 6 month

21.2 (45/212)

1

1

 

   ≥ 6 month

20.1 (39/194)

0.93 (0.58,1.51)

0.95 (0.56,1.59)

–

 Believed this was a serious relationship

  No

24.7 (45/182)

1

1

 

  Yes

17.4 (39/224)

0.64 (0.40,1.04)†

0.66 (0.40,1.10)

–

 Perceived that this relationship would continue for a long time

  No

32.1 (27/84)

1

1

 

  Yes

17.7 (57/322)

0.45 (0.26,0.78)**

0.49 (0.27,0.87)*

0.49 (0.27,0.88)*

Conflict of interest

 Exchanged money or materials to maintain this sexual relationship

  No

19.8 (79/398)

1

1

 

  Yes

62.5 (5/8)

6.73 (1.58,28.76)*

5.98 (1.31,27.22)*

5.90 (1.27,27.43)*

The dependence model

 Invested more emotion in this regular relationship

  No

19.2 (51/265)

1

1

 

  Yes

23.4 (33/141)

1.28 (0.78,2.10)

1.42 (0.85,2.38)

–

 Your RP is dominant in this relationship

  No

21.6 (67/310)

1

1

 

  Yes

17.7 (17/96)

0.78 (0.43,1.41)

0.87 (0.47,1.61)

–

Open communication on sexual relationship

 Openly discussed being monogamous in this relationship

  No

22.3 (55/247)

1

1

 

  Yes

18.2 (29/159)

0.78 (0.47,1.29)

0.81 (0.48,1.37)

–

 Openly discussed a sexual agreement or requirement to use condoms when having sex with other partners

  No

24.4 (47/193)

1

1

 

  Yes

17.4 (37/213)

0.65 (0.40,1.06)†

0.70 (0.42,1.15)

–

  1. †p < 0.10, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01
  2. AOR Adjusted odds ratio in multivariate logistic regression, OR m Adjusted odds ratio in multiple forward stepwise regression
  3. AOR and ORm were calculated after adjusting for confounders, and confounders including age (as a continuous variable), marital status (currently married or not), Guangzhou permanent resident (Yes or No), education level (higher than post-secondary education level or not), sexual orientation (bisexual/uncertain, or homosexual), and duration being MSM (less than five years, five years/ longer than five years), recruitment via Internet (Yes or No)
  4. n1: n1 actually is the n in Table 3, to distinguish the n in Tables 4, 5, 6, we use n1 to represent the n of Table 3
  5. NS Variables with p < 0.10 in multivariate logistic regression, but were not significant in multiple forward stepwise logistic regression