Use of effective family planning methods and frequency of sex among HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected African women

Table 3 Association of family planning method used and other risk factors with the outcome frequency of sex in HIV-infected women, Generalized Estimating Equations (GEE) Log-binomial Regression Model

Risk factor		Unadjusted RR^a (95% CI)^b	P-value^c	Adjusted RR (95% CI)	P-value^c
Family planning method	Effective	1.30 (1.15-1.46)	<.0001	1.32 (1.14-1.52)	0.0002
Family planning method	No or Other	1	.	1	.
Age (years)	30+	0.77 (0.55-1.06)	0.1091	0.95 (0.63-1.44)	0.8200
	25-29	0.99 (0.73-1.36)	0.9741	1.15 (0.78-1.70)	0.4838
	20-24	0.92 (0.67-1.26)	0.5934	0.97 (0.66-1.44)	0.8982
	< 20	1	.	1	.
Education^d	Form 1-4 or above	1.00 (0.84-1.23)	0.9793
	Grade 1-8	0.96 (0.79-1.16)	0.6465
	No Schooling	1	.	1	.
Number of living children		0.98 (0.94-1.03)	0.4894
Fertility intentions	Have another child	1.19 (1.10-1.33)	0.0033	1.19 (1.04-1.36)	0.0119
	Not decided/Not sure	1.26 (0.97-1.63)	0.0852	1.46 (1.12-1.91)	0.0052
	No more children	1	.	1	.
Current health status	Good or Excellent	1.15 (0.99-1.34)	0.0646	1.12 (0.96-1.30)	0.1492
Current health status	Poor or Fair	1	.	1	.

^aRelative Risk (RR); ^bConfidence Interval (CI); ^cP-value for test of statistical significance of the RR of sex frequency (bold signifies statistically significant);^d Education (Grade 1-8 of the elementary school; and Form 1-4 of secondary school)
Variables with p < 0.15 in the univariate analysis were included in the multivariate model

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