Table 1.

Impact of HIV/AIDS on mothers’ ability to attend activities with their children: percent of mothers indicating each response overall and by race/ethnicity

Activities/reasons	Total (%)	Latina (%)	African American (%)	Multi-racial (%)	White (%)	Illustrative quotations
Mothers who missed out on specific activities (n = 34)
School and extracurricular activities	47	53	50	25	0	“The school was far away, sometimes I didn’t have the energy…I didn’t go to the meetings…the teachers would call me”
Going places	42	53	21	50	50	“When a certain time of day comes, I can’t do anything. So when my son wants to go to the movies…I can’t take him…I couldn’t do many things”
Daily care	35	27	36	50	50	“You feel useless. You cannot cook for your kids, take care of them”
Active, leisure time play	18	27	7	0	50	“There was a lot of things. I think a lot of it had to do with just being able to go out and experience a lot of physical things”
Reasons for missing activities (n = 34)
Poor physical health	94	87	100	100	100	“I was so sick so it was hard taking care of him”
Poor mental health	26	33	15	50	33	“I’d rather sit home and do nothing in my depression than get out of it and let him have more of a normal childhood”
Stigma/secrecy	12	7	15	0	50	“I wanted to hide…I was very ashamed”
Reasons for not missing activities (n = 23)
Good physical health	78	92	71	0	50	“I pretty much haven’t been ill during their whole life”
HIV as motivator to do “more”	17	8	14	0	50	“I think it caused us [to do] more”
“Powering through” limitations	17	17	29	0	0	“I just push myself and just go and catch up with rest later”