Experience of social harms among female sex workers following HIV self-test distribution in Malawi: results of a cohort study

Table 1 Factors associated with regret/relationship problems as reported at the end-line (3 month) interview

Variable	Category	Immediate regret about HIVST use (reported at 3 months)^a			Current regret about HIVST use (reported at 3 months)^a			Relationship problems associated with HIVST use (reported at 3 months)^a
		n/N (%)^a	OR (95% CI)	p-value	n/N (%)^a	OR (95% CI)	p-value	n/N (%)^a	OR (95% CI)	p-value
Initiator of HIVST	Self	20/60(33.3)	1	0.36	14/60(23.3)	1	0.73	4/60(6.7)	1	0.12
Initiator of HIVST	Other	11/44(25.0)	0.67(0.28—1.59)	0.36	9/44(20.5)	0.84(0.33—2.18)	0.73	8/44(18.2)	2.83(0.77—10.49)	0.12
HIVST result	Unreactive	21/67(31.3)	1	0.65	12/67(17.9)	1	0.17	8/67(11.9)	1	0.69
HIVST result	Reactive	10/37(27.0)	0.81(0.33—1.98)	0.65	11/37(29.7)	1.94(0.76—4.97)	0.17	4/37(10.8)	1.31(0.35—4.97)	0.69
Age range (years)	16–25	21/66(31.8)	1	0.06	17/66(25.8)	1	0.04	7/66(10.6)	1	0.87
	26–35	9/53(17.0)	0.40(0.16—1.01)		4/53(7.5)	0.22(0.07—0.71)		4/53(7.5)	0.72(0.19—2.76)
	> = 36	1/12(8.3)	0.16(0.02—1.39)		2/12(16.7)	0.51(0.10—2.69)		1/12(8.3)	0.69(0.07—6.70)
Maximum level of educational attainment	Primary or less	23/82(28.0)	1	0.18	16/82(19.5)	1	0.56	9/82(11.0)	1	0.15
Maximum level of educational attainment	Secondary or higher	8/49(16.3)	0.53(0.21—1.34)	0.18	7/49(14.3)	0.74(0.27—2.01)	0.56	3/49(6.1)	0.36(0.09—1.45)	0.15
Total n/N (%)		31/131 (23.7)			23/131 (17.6)			12/131 (9.2)

^aMissing responses were not included in the table, 27/131 (20.6%) of respondents had missing responses to the questions on whether they experienced immediate or current regret about the use of HIVST and 61/131 (46.6%) of respondents had missing responses to the question on whether they experienced relationship problems associated with the use of HIVST. There was no missing data for the other covariates and no invalid or uncertain HIVST test results reported

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