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Table 2 Multilevel mixed-effects complementary log–log regression model showing the association between individual and contextual factors on the knowledge of mother to child transmission of HIV and AIDS

From: Knowledge and determinants of women’s knowledge on vertical transmission of HIV and AIDS in South Africa

Variables

Model 0

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

 

AOR [95%CI]

AOR [95%CI]

AOR [95%CI]

Individual level

 Age

  15–19

 

0.89 [0.75,1.06]

 

0.92 [0.77,1.09]

  20–24

 

1.11 [0.95,1.31]

 

1.15 [0.98,1.35]

  25–29

 

1.05 [0.91,1.22]

 

1.09 [0.94,1.26]

  30–34

 

1.07 [0.92,1.24]

 

1.11 [0.96,1.28]

  35–39

 

0.95 [0.83,1.10]

 

0.96 [0.83,1.11]

  40–44

 

0.95 [0.82,1.10]

 

0.95 [0.82,1.09]

  45–49

 

Ref

 

Ref

Employment

 Not working

 

0.84 [0.58,1.22]

 

0.83 [0.58,1.20]

 Managerial

 

0.95 [0.63,1.43]

 

0.93 [0.63,1.38]

 Clerical

 

0.78 [0.52,1.17]

 

0.76 [0.51,1.13]

 Agricultural

 

Ref

 

Ref

 Home

 

0.87 [0.58,1.30]

 

0.85 [0.57,1.26]

 Services

 

0.91 [0.61,1.35]

 

0.87 [0.60,1.28]

 Manual

 

0.92 [0.62,1.35]

 

0.90 [0.62,1.32]

Marital status

 Never married

 

0.94 [0.80,1.10]

 

0.93 [0.79,1.08]

 Married

 

0.93 [0.79,1.10]

 

0.92 [0.78,1.08]

 Cohabitation

 

0.97 [0.80,1.16]

 

0.95 [0.79,1.14]

 Widow/Divorced/Separated

 

Ref

 

Ref

Education

 No education

 

Ref

 

Ref

 Primary

 

1.08 [0.87,1.33]

 

1.09 [0.88,1.34]

 Secondary

 

1.29* [1.05,1.59]

 

1.28* [1.04,1.57]

 Higher

 

1.65*** [1.28,2.11]

 

1.55*** [1.21,1.99]

Parity

 0

 

0.77*** [0.66,0.90]

 

0.73*** [0.63,0.85]

 1

 

0.90 [0.79,1.04]

 

0.88 [0.77,1.01]

 2

 

0.97 [0.85,1.11]

 

0.95 [0.83,1.08]

 3

 

0.98 [0.85,1.12]

 

0.95 [0.83,1.09]

 4 or more

 

Ref

  

Frequency of reading Newspaper

 Not at all

 

Ref

 

Ref

 Less than once a week

 

1.16** [1.05,1.27]

 

1.16** [1.05,1.28]

 At least once a week

 

1.17*** [1.06,1.28]

 

1.14** [1.04,1.25]

Frequency of watching TV

 Not at all

 

Ref

 

Ref

 Less than once a week

 

1.06 [0.95,1.18]

 

1.05 [0.94,1.17]

 At least once a week

 

1.10* [1.01,1.19]

 

1.08 [0.99,1.17]

Frequency of listening to radio

 Not at all

 

Ref

 

Ref

 Less than once a week

 

1.29** [1.10,1.52]

 

1.22* [1.03,1.43]

 At least once a week

 

1.06 [0.95,1.17]

 

0.982 [0.88,1.10]

 4 and above

 

Ref

 

Ref

Contextual factors

 Region

  Northern Cape

  

Ref

Ref

  Western Cape

  

1.04 [0.87,1.24]

1.02 [0.85,1.22]

  Eastern Cape

  

0.94 [0.80,1.11]

0.93 [0.78,1.10]

  Free State

  

1.04 [0.88,1.23]

1.04 [0.88,1.24]

  KwaZulu-Natal

  

1.15 [0.94,1.39]

1.13 [0.92,1.38]

  North West

  

1.52*** [1.25,1.84]

1.49*** [1.22,1.81]

  Gauteng

  

1.36*** [1.13,1.63]

1.35** [1.12,1.62]

  Mpumalanga

  

0.91 [0.76,1.08]

0.89 [0.75,1.06]

  Limpopo

  

1.32** [1.10,1.58]

1.35** [1.12,1.64]

Residence

 Urban

  

1.17** [1.05,1.30]

1.17** [1.04,1.31]

 Rural

  

Ref

Ref

Wealth

 Poorest

  

0.75*** [0.65,0.87]

0.82* [0.69,0.97]

 Poorer

  

0.84* [0.73,0.97]

0.87 [0.75,1.01]

 Middle

  

0.87 [0.77,1.00]

0.89 [0.77,1.03]

 Richer

  

0.94 [0.83,1.06]

0.97 [0.85,1.10]

 Richest

  

Ref

Ref

Random effects results

 PSU variance

0.15

0.15

0.10

0.11

 ICC

0.20

0.15

0.15

0.15

 Wald chi-square and p-value

Ref

160.68 (p < 0.001)

113.60 (p < 0.001)

248.83 (p < 0.001)

 LR Test

176.72 (p < 0.001)

152.57 (p < 0.001)

92.78 (p < 0.001)

93.02 (p < 0.001)

Model fitness

 Log-likelihood

− 2453.69

− 2359.58

− 2401.68

− 2319.44

 AIC

4911.38

4779.151

4833.369

4724.882

 PSU

723

723

723

723

 N

7861

7861

7861

7861

  1. Exponentiated coefficients; 95% confidence intervals in brackets
  2. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, Ref   Reference category, PSU  Primary sampling unit, ICC  Intra-class correlation, LR Test  Likelihood ratio test, AIC   Akaike’s information criterion