Table 2.
Family support by race and language.
| Race | Language | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reason for lack of family support | p-value | Black African, n (%) |
Colored, n (%) |
p-value | Afrikaans, n (%) |
English, n (%) |
Xhosa, n (%) |
|
| People shame their family members living with HIV/AIDS because of cultural values | Agree | 0.000 | 43 (15.4) | 11 (13.9) | 0.013 | 10 (14.8) | 7 (22.6) | 41 (14.9) |
| Disagree | 139 (49.8) | 20 (25.3) | 19 (28.4) | 7 (22.6) | 142 (51.4) | |||
| Neutral/don’t know | 97 (34.8) | 48 (60.8) | 38 (56.7) | 17 (54.8) | 93 (33.7) | |||
| People shame their family members living with HIV/AIDS because of religious/spiritual values | Agree | 0.004 | 66 (23.5) | 20 (25.3) | 0.109 | 18 (26.9) | 7 (21.2) | 64 (23.1) |
| Disagree | 115 (40.9) | 17 (21.5) | 17 (25.4) | 6 (18.2) | 119 (43.0) | |||
| Neutral/don’t know | 100 (35.6) | 42 (53.2) | 32 (47.8) | 20 (60.6) | 94 (33.9) | |||