Table 4.
Clinical 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clinical Measures of HIV infection | ||||
| Duration since diagnosis in years | 2.0 (2.0) | 2.2 (1.7) | 1.4 (1.8) | 0.0028b |
| Duration of ART in months | 15 (9.3) | 15 (10) | 15 (6.4) | 0.59b |
| No. of self-reported AIDS-related illnesses in last year (out of 12) | 5.5 (2.7) | 5.2 (3.0) | 6.8 (2.4) | 0.0068a |
| No. of medically-assessed symptoms in last week (out of 25) | 7.3 (3.7) | 7.3 (3.6) | 8.9 (4.7) | 0.12a |
| No. of medically-assessed symptoms in last week at baseline (out of 25)e | 4.1 (2.7) | 4.3 (2.6) | 3.1 (2.5) | 0.055a |
| ART status | 0.0051c | |||
| Ineligible for treatment | 16 (31) | 22 (19) | 13 (3) | 0.40c |
| Eligible and waiting for treatment | 37 (73) | 30 (26) | 67 (16) | 0.0017c |
| On treatment | 48 (96) | 48 (42) | 21 (5) | 0.020c |
| Baseline CD4 count (cells/mm3)f | 0.97c | |||
| <50 | 13 (16) | 10 (6) | 14 (1) | |
| 50–99 | 14 (17) | 12 (7) | 0 | |
| 100–199 | 33 (41) | 31 (18) | 43 (3) | |
| 200–349 | 20 (25) | 19 (11) | 14 (1) | |
| >=350 | 21 (26) | 29 (17) | 29 (2) | |
| Mean (SD) | 233 (232) | 252 (210) | 255 (204) | 0.97a |
| Current CD4 count (cells/mm3) | 0.49c | |||
| <50 | 5.0 (10) | 3.5 (3) | 8.3 (2) | |
| 50–99 | 11 (22) | 9.2 (8) | 17 (4) | |
| 100–199 | 22 (43) | 24. (21) | 21 (5) | |
| 200–349 | 27 (53) | 22 (19) | 25 (6) | |
| >=350 | 36 (72) | 41 (36) | 29 (7) | |
| Mean (SD) | 300 (199) | 326 (213) | 254 (188) | 0.11a |
| Baseline WHO Clinical Stage of HIV infectiong | 0.25c | |||
| 1 | 19 (38) | 28 (24) | 13 (3) | |
| 2 | 21 (41) | 21 (18) | 17 (4) | |
| 3 | 57 (113) | 48 (42) | 71 (17) | |
| 4 | 3.0 (6) | 3.5 (3) | 0 | |
| Mean (SD) | 2.4 (0.83) | 2.3 (0.91) | 2.6 (0.72) | 0.09a |
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 a total number of 35 values, 19 for disclosed group and 2 for not-disclosed group
f
Missing a total number of 75 values, 28 for disclosed group and 17 for not-disclosed group
g
Missing a total number of 2 values, none for disclosed group or not-disclosed group