Endorsement of HIV misconceptions over time among females and males in Haiti

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Table 1. Cross-classification analysis of selected variables by survey years among women and men in Haiti.

	Women				Men
	2005-2006	2012	2016-2017	p-value	2005-2006	2012	2016-2017	p-value
HIV misconception endorsement				***				***
No	34	37	43		39	33	40
Yes	66	63	57		61	67	60
Age				***				*
15-19	25	23	22		24	22	22
20-24	19	20	20		18	18	17
25-29	16	17	16		12	14	13
30-34	12	13	14		11	11	12
35-39	11	10	11		9	9	9
40-44	9	8	9		8	8	8
45-49	9	8	8		8	7	7
50-54	N/A	N/A	N/A		6	6	7
55-59	N/A	N/A	N/A		5	5	6
Marital status				***				n.s.
Never married	32	37	40		47	48	49
Currently married	59	55	52		47	46	45
Formerly married	9	8	8		6	6	6
Place of residence				n.s.				n.s.
Urban	47	47	47		40	44	43
Rural	53	53	53		60	56	57
Household wealth				n.s.				n.s.
Poorest	15	15	15		17	18	17
Poorer	16	16	17		20	18	17
Middle	18	20	20		19	20	21
Richer	24	23	23		21	21	21
Richest	26	26	25		23	23	24
Education				***				***
None	23	15	13		18	13	13
Primary education	39	36	30		41	37	29
Secondary education	35	43	50		37	42	48
Higher education	3	6	7		5	8	10
Employment				n.s.				*
Unemployed	57	59	56		35	30	31
Employed	43	41	44		65	70	69
Ever tested for HIV				***				***
No	81	50	38		89	69	58
Yes	19	50	62		11	31	42
Adequate HIV knowledge				***				*
No	19	19	15		11	14	14
Yes	81	81	85		89	86	86
Weighted counts	10,545	14,180	9,590		4,924	9,422	9,329

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

Table 2. Logit models predicting ‘HIV misconception endorsement’ among women in Haiti.

	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3			Model 4
	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Year
2005-2006	1.00			1.00			1.00			1.00
2012	0.87*	0.76	0.99	0.90	0.80	1.02	0.98	0.88	1.11	1.08	0.96	1.21
2016-2017	0.68***	0.60	0.78	0.71***	0.63	0.81	0.81***	0.72	0.92	0.93	0.82	1.05
Age
15-19				1.00			1.00			1.00
20-24				0.70***	0.64	0.77	0.90*	0.82	0.99	0.96	0.88	1.05
25-29				0.54***	0.49	0.60	0.76***	0.68	0.85	0.82***	0.73	0.92
30-34				0.53***	0.47	0.59	0.68***	0.60	0.77	0.73***	0.65	0.83
35-39				0.59***	0.52	0.66	0.68***	0.60	0.78	0.72***	0.63	0.82
40-44				0.68***	0.60	0.76	0.73***	0.64	0.83	0.76***	0.67	0.87
45-49				0.81**	0.71	0.93	0.77***	0.67	0.90	0.79**	0.68	0.92
Marital status
Never married				1.00			1.00			1.00
Currently married				1.53***	1.42	1.66	1.10*	1.01	1.20	1.22***	1.11	1.33
Formerly married				1.67***	1.48	1.89	1.17*	1.03	1.33	1.28***	1.12	1.45
Place of residence
Urban				1.00			1.00			1.00
Rural				1.87***	1.70	2.07	1.09	0.96	1.23	1.07	0.95	1.21
Household wealth
Poorest							1.00			1.00
Poorer							0.84***	0.75	0.93	0.85**	0.76	0.94
Middle							0.77***	0.67	0.88	0.79***	0.69	0.90
Richer							0.66***	0.57	0.76	0.68***	0.59	0.78
Richest							0.51***	0.44	0.59	0.53***	0.45	0.61
Education
None							1.00			1.00
Primary education							0.78***	0.71	0.86	0.82***	0.75	0.90
Secondary education							0.38***	0.34	0.43	0.42***	0.37	0.47
Higher education							0.16***	0.13	0.19	0.18***	0.15	0.22
Employment
Unemployed							1.00			1.00
Employed							0.96	0.90	1.03	0.96	0.90	1.03
Ever tested for HIV
No										1.00
Yes										0.75***	0.70	0.80
Adequate HIV knowledge
No										1.00
Yes										0.70***	0.64	0.77
F	16.77***			40.21***			67.25***			67.12***

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.

Table 3. Logit models predicting ‘HIV misconception endorsement’ among men in Haiti.

	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3			Model 4
	OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Year
2005-2006	1.00			1.00			1.00			1.00
2012	1.33**	1.11	1.60	1.39***	1.17	1.66	1.50***	1.25	1.80	1.55***	1.30	1.86
2016-2017	0.99	0.86	1.15	1.02	0.89	1.18	1.17*	1.02	1.35	1.24**	1.08	1.43
Age
15-19				1.00			1.00			1.00
20-24				0.68***	0.62	0.76	0.83**	0.75	0.93	0.86**	0.77	0.96
25-29				0.59***	0.52	0.67	0.78***	0.68	0.90	0.82**	0.71	0.95
30-34				0.59***	0.51	0.69	0.82*	0.70	0.96	0.86	0.73	1.01
35-39				0.57***	0.49	0.68	0.72***	0.60	0.85	0.75***	0.62	0.89
40-44				0.59***	0.51	0.70	0.67***	0.57	0.80	0.70***	0.59	0.84
45-49				0.74***	0.62	0.89	0.78**	0.64	0.94	0.80*	0.66	0.98
50-54				0.71***	0.60	0.84	0.67***	0.56	0.80	0.69***	0.58	0.83
55-59				0.80*	0.66	0.99	0.72**	0.58	0.89	0.74**	0.59	0.92
Marital status
Never married				1.00			1.00			1.00
Currently married				1.25***	1.12	1.40	1.05	0.94	1.18	1.07	0.95	1.20
Formerly married				1.27*	1.06	1.52	1.02	0.85	1.22	1.04	0.87	1.24
Place of residence
Urban				1.00			1.00			1.00
Rural				1.69***	1.49	1.92	0.93	0.78	1.10	0.93	0.78	1.10
Household wealth
Poorest							1.00			1.00
Poorer							0.98	0.85	1.13	0.99	0.86	1.14
Middle							0.79**	0.67	0.94	0.81*	0.68	0.96
Richer							0.63***	0.51	0.79	0.65***	0.52	0.80
Richest							0.55***	0.44	0.69	0.57***	0.45	0.71
Education
None							1.00			1.00
Primary education							0.80***	0.71	0.91	0.82**	0.72	0.93
Secondary education							0.43***	0.37	0.49	0.44***	0.38	0.51
Higher education							0.24***	0.20	0.29	0.26***	0.21	0.31
Employment
Unemployed							1.00			1.00
Employed							0.95	0.85	1.05	0.95	0.85	1.05
Ever tested for HIV
No										1.00
Yes										0.83***	0.76	0.91
Adequate HIV knowledge
No										1.00
Yes										1.07	0.89	1.28
F	6.73***			17.07***			28.12***			27.84***

*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001.