Trichomonas vaginalis infection and the diagnostic significance of detection tests among Ghanaian outpatients

BMC Women's Health

Table 3 Univariate analysis of patient’s characteristics for potential risk factors of T. vaginalis infection

Covariates^a	Patients (n = 150)	Patients with T. vaginalis		Unadjusted Odds ratio	95%CI	P-value
Covariates^a	Patients (n = 150)	Yes (n = 64)	No (n = 86)	Unadjusted Odds ratio	95%CI	P-value
Demographics
Female gender	110	53	57	2.45	1.11, 5.39	0.026
Age (±SD)^b		31.12 ± 12.12	19.35 ± 7.89	2.03	1.06,3.92	0.001
Age groups (years)
< 18 (minors)	10	6	4	2.12	0.57,7.85	0.326
18–35 (young adults)	84	33	51	0.73	0.38,1.40	0.406
35–55 (middle-aged adults)	56	25	31	1.14	0.58,2.18	0.735
Locality
Inner town	85	33	52	0.69	0.36, 1.33	0.318
Town outskirt	33	19	14	2.17	0.99,4.75	0.072
Village	32	12	20	0.76	0.34,1.69	0.551
Marital status
Single	42	24	29	0.45	0.23, 0.87	0.021
Married	63	22	33	0.84	0.43, 1.65	0.732
Divorced widowed	23	11	12	1.57	0.65, 3.83	0.363
Pregnant	45	12	33	0.371	0.17, 0.79	0.011
Education
None	22	15	7	3.23	1.23, 8.48	0.019
Basic school	59	20	39	0.55	0.27, 1.07	0.093
S.H.S	37	13	24	0.66	0.31, 1.42	0.340
Tertiary	32	16	16	1.40	0.64, 3.06	0.427
Employed	85	20	65	0.143	0.07, 0.30	< 0.001

^aT. vaginitis infection was defined with positivity to PCR diagnostic tests; SD standard deviation, CI confidence interval, S.H.S Senior High School, STI sexually transmitted disease
^bAge was considered as a continuous variable from 16 to 55 years

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