Adulo Lema Abate, Hassen Sali Suleman, Kontuab Admasu Markos
Department of Statistics, College of Natural and Computational Sciences, Mizan-Tepi University, Tepi, Ethiopia.
AIDS Res Treat. 2022 Jul 18;2022:7911385. doi: 10.1155/2022/7911385. eCollection 2022.
Voluntary counseling and testing (VCT) is the primary gateway to HIV prevention, caution, and handling, where people learn whether they are infected. This study was aimed to assess the determinants of voluntary counseling and testing experience among students.
An institution-based cross-sectional study was conducted between November and January, 2020. A simple random sampling procedure was used to select participants from the target group. The Chi-square test, descriptive analysis, and a binary logistic regression analysis were used to identify the factors associated with VCT experience among students.
Out of 398 participants, 42.5% experienced VCT services. From 59.5% of female participants in the study, only 22.9% experienced VCT services. The logistic regression results revealed that male participants less likely experienced VCT (AOR = 0.549; 95%CI: 0.330, 0.910; =0.020) compared to female students. Students who had VCT service access in their surroundings (AOR = 2.348; 95%CI: 1.371, 4.020; =0.002), a sexual partner (AOR = 3.795; 95%CI: 1.214, 11.868; =0.022), and media access (AOR = 2.374; 95%CI: 1.059, 5.320; =0.036) were more likely to utilize VCT services than their reference categories.
VCT utilization among students remains limited. In this study, sex, age, region, the education of mother and father, having boy/girlfriend, the source of information, service access, media access, and attitude were the identified factors of VCT utilization. To enhance the usage of VCT services, the facilities should be publicized, and all information regarding VCT should be made available to teenagers.
自愿咨询检测（VCT）是预防、警惕和应对艾滋病毒的主要途径，人们可在此了解自己是否感染。本研究旨在评估学生自愿咨询检测经历的决定因素。
于2020年11月至1月开展了一项基于机构的横断面研究。采用简单随机抽样程序从目标群体中选取参与者。运用卡方检验、描述性分析和二元逻辑回归分析来确定与学生自愿咨询检测经历相关的因素。
在398名参与者中，42.5%有过自愿咨询检测服务经历。在参与研究的59.5%的女性参与者中，只有22.9%有过自愿咨询检测服务经历。逻辑回归结果显示，与女学生相比，男学生接受自愿咨询检测的可能性较小（比值比[AOR]=0.549；95%置信区间[CI]：0.330，0.910；P=0.020）。周围有自愿咨询检测服务机构的学生（比值比[AOR]=2.348；95%置信区间[CI]：1.371，4.020；P=0.002）、有性伴侣的学生（比值比[AOR]=3.795；95%置信区间[CI]：1.214，11.868；P=0.022）以及能接触到媒体的学生（比值比[AOR]=2.374；95%置信区间[CI]：1.059，5.320；P=0.036）比参照组更有可能利用自愿咨询检测服务。
学生中自愿咨询检测的利用率仍然有限。在本研究中，性别、年龄、地区、父母的教育程度、有无男/女朋友、信息来源、服务可及性、媒体接触情况和态度是自愿咨询检测利用率的已确定影响因素。为提高自愿咨询检测服务的使用率，应宣传相关设施，并向青少年提供所有关于自愿咨询检测的信息。
