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Table 2 Adverse socio-cultural factors among forcibly displaced youth (N = 445): Inequitable gender norms, adolescent SRH stigma, perceived HIV stigma, and their co-occurrence

From: A syndemic of inequitable gender norms and intersecting stigmas on condom self-efficacy and practices among displaced youth living in urban slums in Uganda: a community-based cross-sectional study

Adverse socio-cultural factors and their combinations

Full sample (N = 445), N (%)

Adolescent boys and young men (n = 112), N (%)

Adolescent girls and young women (n = 333), N (%)

X2

A-SRH stigma

   

0.01

 Low

82 (18.4)

21 (18.8)

61 (18.3)

 

 High

363 (81.6)

91 (81.3)

272 (81.7)

 

Perceived HIV Stigma

   

10.42***

 Low

260 (54.1)

80 (71.4)

180 (54.1)

 

 High

185 (41.6)

32 (28.6)

153 (45.9)

 

Beliefs in harmful inequitable gender norms

   

48.67***

 Low

239 (53.7)

92 (82.1)

147 (44.1)

 

 High

206 (46.3)

20 (17.9)

186 (55.9)

 

Each exposure only

 Beliefs in harmful inequitable gender norms only

35 (7.87)

   

 A-SRH stigma only

105 (23.60)

   

 HIV stigma only

12 (2.70)

   

Co-occurrence of adverse socio-cultural exposures

 Beliefs in harmful inequitable gender norms + A-SRH stigma

91 (20.45)

   

 Beliefs in harmful inequitable gender norms + HIV stigma

6 (1.35)

   

 A-SRH stigma + HIV stigma

93 (20.90)

   

 Beliefs in harmful inequitable gender norms + A-SRH stigma + HIV stigma

74 (16.63)

   

No adverse socio-cultural exposures

29 (6.52)

   
  1. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001