Characteristics | All study participants n = 2251 (%) | Participants who reported having STI symptoms (n = 448) | |
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Socio Demographic | |||
Gender | Male | 718 (31.9) | 157 (35.0) |
Female | 1533 (68.1) | 291 (65.0) | |
Age [mean (SD)] | Mean 20.2; SD (2.5) | Mean 19.9; SD (2.5) | |
Marital status | Single | 2590 (70.6) | 318 (71.0) |
Married | 610 (27.1) | 121 (27.1) | |
Divorced or separated | 51 (2.3) | 9 (2.0) | |
Education level | None/Primary | 1155 (51.3) | 242 (54.0) |
Secondary and above | 1096 (48.7) | 206 (46.0) | |
Current activity | In school | 482 (21.4) | 89 (19.9) |
Work | 785 (34.9) | 164 (36.5) | |
Both | 20 (1.0) | 7 (1.6) | |
None | 964 (42.8) | 188 (42.0) | |
Membership of one or more social network | Yes | 124 (5.5) | 31 (7.0) |
No | 2127 (94.5) | 417 (93.0) | |
Ethnicity | Pogoro | 501 (22.3) | 107 (33.9) |
Ngoni | 289 (12.8) | 49 (10.9)) | |
Ndamba | 244 (10.8) | 43 (9.6) | |
Sukuma | 169 (7.5) | 34 (7.6) | |
Hehe | 146 (6.5) | 28 (6.2) | |
Ngindo | 141 (6.3) | 30 (6.7) | |
Mbena | 103 (4.6) | 31 (7.0) | |
Other with frequency < 5% | 658 (29.2) | 126 (28.1) | |
Sexual behaviour | |||
Age at first sex [median (IQR)] | Median 16.0; IQR(15–18) | Median 16; IQR (15–17) | |
Life time sexual partners | |||
One | 706 (31.4) | 138 (30.8) | |
Two | 553 (24.6) | 100 (22.3) | |
Three or more | 935 (41.5) | 206 (46.0) | |
Don’t Know | 57 (2.5) | 4 (0.9) | |
Past 12 months sexual partners | None | 336 (14.9) | 65 (14.5) |
One | 1750 (77.7) | 340 (75.9) | |
Two or more | 165 (7.3) | 43 (9.6) | |
Partner age difference(past year) | Partner older by at least 5 years | 1036 (54.2) | 205 (45.8) |
Partner younger by at least 5 years | 152 (8.0) | 32 (7.1) | |
Partner of about same age | 650 (34.0) | 128 (28.6) | |
Engaged in more than one group | 74 (3.9) | 16 (4.0) | |
Condom use last sex with first most recent partner (past year) | Don’t have partner | 447 (21.2) | 94 (21.0) |
Yes | 585 (26.0) | 105 (23.5) | |
No | 1186 (52.8) | 248 (55.5) | |
Missing | 2 | 1 | |
STI knowledge | |||
Heard of STI | Yes | 1882 (83.6) | 388 (86.6) |
No | 369 (16.4) | 60 (13.9) | |
STI sign knowledge | Low | 1516 (67.4) | 284 (63.4) |
High | 735 (32.7) | 164 (36.6) | |
Heard of condoms | Yes | 2205 (97.9) | 438 (97.8) |
No | 46 (2.1) | 10 (2.2) | |
HIV status and access to health services | |||
Ever had VCT | Yes | 442 (19.6) | 72 (16.1) |
No | 1809 (80.4) | 376 (83.9) | |
HIV status (n = 2042) | Positive | 86 (4.2) | 25 (5.9) |
Negative | 1956 (95.8) | 397 (94.1) | |
Health service usea | Never | 714 (31.7) | 149 (33.3) |
1–3 visit | 1060 (47.1) | 212 (47.3) | |
4 or more visit | 477 (21.2) | 87 (19.4) | |
STI symptoms | |||
painful urination | Yes | 376 (16.7) | 376 (83.9) |
urinated blood | Yes | 84 (3.7) | 84 (18.8) |
genital discharge | Yes | 54 (2.4) | 54 (12.1) |
genital ulcers or swelling | Yes | 89 (4.0) | 89 (19.9) |