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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 Mar 5.
Published in final edited form as: AIDS Care. 2021 Mar 25;34(4):459–468. doi: 10.1080/09540121.2021.1902935

Table 4.

Trends in secondary outcomes among adolescents

Baseline Endline p-
value
Intervention
(n,%)
Comparison
(n,%)
Intervention
(n,%)
Comparison
(n,%)
Adolescent Internalized Stigma (feels the following because of living with HIV) n=24 n=24 n=23 n=26
Guilty 10 (41.7) 11 (45.8) 4 (17.4) 5 (19.2) * 0.96
Worthless 13 (54.2) 9 (37.5) 5 (21.7) * 9 (34.6) 0.06
Ashamed 14 (58.3) 13 (54.2) 7 (30.4) * 15 (57.7) 0.07
Adolescent viral load n=24 n=25§ n=23 n=26
Adolescent with viral failure ≥ 1000 copies per mL 9 (37.5) 7 (28) 7 (30.4) 6 (23.1) 0.97
Adolescent ART adherence n=24 n=26
mean (SD) mean (SD)
6-month ART adherence (opened bottle 100% of daily dose) 0.87 (0.20) 0.869 (0.21) 0.96

ACASI baseline data missing for two participants on internalized stigma

GEE model with logit link comparing single item response changes from baseline to endline between intervention and comparison groups

§

One participant’s blood sample could not be processed

T-test

*

Difference between baseline and endline for group is significant (p <0.05)