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Table 1 Sample characteristics and sexual HIV risk behaviour of pregnant women (N = 1502)

From: Sexual HIV risk behaviour and associated factors among pregnant women in Mpumalanga, South Africa

Variables

n or M

% or SD

Socio-economic factors

  

Age (years), M (s.d.)

26.6

6.1

Education (years or Grades)

  

 Grade 7 or less, n (%)

134

9.0

 Grade 8–11, n (%)

698

46.6

 Grade 12 or more, n (%)

665

44.4

Marital status

  

 Single, n (%)

1025

69.8

 Married or cohabitating, n (%)

444

30.2

Obstetrics

  

Number of own children, M (s.d)

1.2

1.2

Number of antenatal care visits, M (s.d.)

3.4

1.5

Current pregnancy not planned, n (%)

824

55.2

Father accompany to antenatal clinic, n (%)

435

29.4

HIV related variables

  

HIV knowledge scores, M (s.d.)

2.5

1.1

Belief ARVs can cure HIV, n (%)

231

16.3

Belief in someone treated with ARVs cannot transmit the HIV virus, n (%)

318

22.4

HIV status

  

 HIV positive, n (%)

278

19.8

 HIV negative, n (%)

1123

80.2

 HIV status unknown, n (%)

101

[6.7]

Psychosocial distress and alcohol use

  

Past month (any) alcohol use, n (%)

93

6.5

Physical partner violence in the past 6 months, n (%)

123

8.5

Psychological distress (Kessler 10 ≥28 scores), n (%)

267

17.8

Sexual HIV risk factors

  

Two or more sexual partners in the past 12 months, n (%)

155

19.9

Casual sexual partner in the past 3 months, n (%)

107

7.6

History of STI (other than HIV) in the past 12 months, n (%)

254

17.3

Condom use with primary partner in the past 3 months

  

 Never, n (%)

899

63.3

 Less than half of the time, n (%)

114

8.0

 Half of the time, n (%)

81

5.7

 More than half of the time, n (%)

99

7.0

 Every time, n (%)

228

16.0

Knows partner’s HIV status

  

 HIV positive, n (%)

77

12.6

 HIV negative, n (%)

532

87.4

 Do not know/refused to answer, n (%)

893

[59.5]

  1. N = number;% = percent; M = Mean; SD/s.d. = Standard deviation.