Table 3.
Socio-demographic correlates of HIV disclosure, grouped by disclosure to current husband/partner
| Variabled | Entire cohort (n=200) |
Disclosed to current partner (n=87) |
Not disclosed to current partner (n=24) |
p-value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Age | 36 (8.3) | 34 (7.8) | 35 (7.7) | 0.44a |
| Age categories | 0.34b | |||
| 18–27 | 11 (22) | 20 (17) | 8.3 (2) | |
| 28–37 | 52 (103) | 55 (48) | 63 (15) | |
| ≥38 | 38 (75) | 25 (22) | 29 (7) | |
| Highest education completed | 0.17b | |||
| Primary school or less | 31 (61) | 21 (18) | 38 (9) | |
| Secondary school up to Form 2 | 23 (46) | 30 (26) | 25 (6) | |
| Secondary school up to Form 4 | 42 (83) | 46 (40) | 33 (8) | |
| Higher secondary, college, or vocational | 5.0 (10) | 3.5 (3) | 4.2 (1) | |
| Marital Status | <0.0001c | |||
| Currently married | 37 (74) | 78 (68) | 17 (4) | <0.0001c |
| Divorced/Separated | 21 (41) | 11 (10) | 58 (14) | <0.0001c |
| Widowed | 41 (82) | 10 (9) | 13 (3) | 0.72c |
| Single/never married | 1.0 (2) | 0 | 8.3 (2) | 0.05c |
| Cohabitating | 0.50 (1) | 0 | 4.2 (1) | 0.22c |
| Employment | 0.59c | |||
| Formal employment | 7.5 (15) | 9.2 (8) | 8.3 (2) | |
| Self-employment | 47 (94) | 43 (37) | 50 (12) | |
| Unemployed | 45 (89) | 47 (41) | 38 (9) | |
| Other-student, etc. | 1.0 (2) | 1.2 (1) | 4.2 (1) | |
| Housing status | 0.95c | |||
| Own | 46 (91) | 39 (33) | 33 (8) | |
| Rent | 14 (27) | 14 (12) | 12 (3) | |
| Lodge | 41 (82) | 48 (42) | 54 (13) | |
| Household commodities | 0.81c | |||
| ≤5 | 64 (127) | 63 (55) | 58 (14) | |
| >5 | 37 (73) | 37 (32) | 42 (10) | |
| Household members | ||||
| Husband/boyfriend | 30 (59) | 63 (55) | 17 (4) | <0.0001c |
| Parents | 16 (32) | 6.9 (6) | 8.3 (2) | 0.68c |
| Children | 70 (139) | 69 (60) | 71 (17) | 1.0c |
| Other | 22 (43) | 21 (18) | 21 (5) | 1.0c |
| Religionf | 0.14c | |||
| Catholic/Anglican/Methodist | 37 (74) | 37 (32) | 38 (9) | |
| Pentecostal churches | 36 (71) | 36 (31) | 46 (11) | |
| Apostolic | 18 (36) | 17 (15) | 8.3 (2) | |
| Other/Traditional/No religion | 9.0 (18) | 10 (9) | 8.3 (2) | |
| Rep./Sexual Health | ||||
| No. of pregnancies | 3.2 (1.8) | 3 (1.6) | 2.9 (1.6) | 0.42b |
| Age at menses | 15 (1.9) | 15 (1.8) | 14 (1.6) | 0.021a |
| Age at 1st sexual encounter | 19 (3.0) | 19 (3.1) | 18 (2.7) | 0.14a |
| No. of sexual partners in last year | 0.60 (0.66) | 0.95 (0.65) | 0.64 (0.49)e | 0.0080b |
| No. of lifetime sexual partners | 3.4 (9.7) | 2.7 (5.0) | 11 (26)e | 0.12b |
| Ever used condoms | 47 (93) | 69 (60) | 42 (10) | 0.018c |
a
Two-sided Student t-test
b
Two-sided Wilcoxon Rank Sum test
c
Two-sided Fisher’s Exact test
d
Means (SD or standard deviation) reported for continuous variables and percents (n) for categorical variables
e
Missing two values
f
Missing one value