Status of using condoms and its influencing factors of female commercial sex workers in small service places in Hangzhou City
Xi, S.; He, Y.; Zhou, X.; Yang, Q.; Sun, M.
Wei Sheng Yan Jiu 38(5): 568-570
2009
ISSN/ISBN: 1000-8020 PMID: 19877517 Document Number: 207881
To understand the status of using condoms and its influencing factors of female commercial sex workers in small service places, providing the basis for AIDS behavior interference. All female commercial sex workers from 100 small service places in Hangzhou Xiacheng District were surveyed by behavior surveillance questionnaire of AIDS. The status of using condoms was known when took place commercial sex. The relationship among total 13 factors about age, practice time, marriage, education, AIDS knowledge score, etc and every commercial sex by using condoms, was analyzed with univariate analysis and Multivariate Logistic regression. Average age of 326 female commercial sex workers were (24.89 +/- 5.55) years old, less than 1 year practice time workers accounted for 47.85%, less than middle school accounted for 84.36%. The rates of using condoms in one recent commercial sex and every commercial sex in last month were 85.28% and 53.68%. Multivariate Logistic regression analyze showed that the rate of using condoms in every commercial sex worker about female commercial sex workers who had more than 3 years practice time, had more than 8 about AIDS knowledge score, used condoms for preventing AIDS, used condoms if being gived more money was high relatively, OR value were 1.99 (95% CI: 1.17 - 3.41), 2.01 (95% CI: 1.04 - 3.86), 4.01 (95% CI: 1.18 - 13.61) and 2.95 (95% CI: 1.84 - 4.72) respectively. The female commercial sex workers in small service places had not long practice time, low education, low rate of used condoms. Practice time, AIDS knowledge score et al, were primary associated with using condoms.