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Table 3 Awareness and disclosure of HIV status among adolescents living with HIV from 11 ART clinics in Cambodia

From: Characteristics of adolescents living with HIV receiving care and treatment services in antiretroviral therapy clinics in Cambodia: descriptive findings from a cross-sectional study

 

Total

(n = 328)

Males

(n = 169)

Females

(n = 159)

 

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

P-value*

General understanding about HIV and AIDS

 

What is your disease?

0.19

 HIV/AIDS

310 (94.5)

157 (92.9)

153 (96.2)

 

 Don’t know

18 (5.5)

12 (7.1)

6 (3.8)

 

Do you know how is this disease transmitted?

 

 Don’t know

8 (2.6)

5 (3.2)

3 (2.0)

0.5

 Mother to child

207 (67.4)

114 (72.0)

95 (62.1)

0.04

 Unprotected sex

236 (76.1)

119 (75.8)

117 (76.5)

0.89

 Sharing needles

178 (57.4)

90 (57.3)

88 (57.5)

0.97

 Blood transfusion

191 (61.6)

82 (52.2)

109 (71.2)

0.001

 Other

65 (21.0)

35 (22.3)

30 (19.6)

0.56

Awareness about self and disclosure

 

Do you know how you have been infected?

0.97

 From mother

256 (82.6)

189 (82.2)

127 (83.0)

 

 Don’t know

54 (17.4)

28 (17.8)

26 (17.0)

 

Do you know what kind of medicine you have received?

0.16

 Pre-ART

6 (1.9)

1 (0.6)

5 (3.3)

 

 ART

268 (86.5)

141 (89.2)

127 (83.6)

 

 Don’t know

36 (11.6)

16 (10.1)

20 (13.2)

 

Have you ever disclosed your HIV status to anyone?

0.03

 None

167 (54.0)

77 (48.7)

90 (59.6)

 

 Siblings

72 (23.3)

47 (29.7)

25 (16.6)

 

 School teachers

6 (1.9)

3 (1.9)

3 (2.0)

 

 Friends

44 (14.2)

18 (11.4)

26 (17.2)

 

 Other (please specify)

20 (6.5)

13 (8.2)

7 (4.6)

 
  1. Values are number (%) for categorical variables and mean (standard deviation) for continuous variables
  2. * Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test as appropriate was used for continuous variables, and Student’s t-test for continuous variables