Table 1. Background characteristics by disclosure group.
| Overalla | Parental HIV disclosure |
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|---|---|---|---|
| (n = 1254) | Yes (n = 111) | No (n = 993) | |
| Age (years) | 38.90 (8.33) | 39.36 (6.02) | 37.31 (5.82)*** |
| Gender (male) | 742 (59.2%) | 57 (51.4%) | 591 (59.5%) |
| Ethnicity | |||
| Han | 899 (71.7%) | 66 (59.5%) | 728 (73.4%) |
| Zhuang | 303 (24.2%) | 39 (35.1.0%) | 232 (23.4%) |
| Others | 51 (4.1%) | 6 (5.4%) | 32 (3.2%)** |
| Any religion | 85 (6.8%) | 7 (6.4%) | 74 (7.5%) |
| Marital status | |||
| Currently married | 950 (78.2%) | 69 (62.7%) | 786 (81.9%) |
| Currently unmarried | 264 (21.8%) | 41 (37.3%) | 174 (18.1%)*** |
| Residence | |||
| Rural residence | 1040 (82.9%) | 90 (81.8%) | 834 (84.2%) |
| Work status | |||
| Full-time | 544 (43.6%) | 37 (33.9%) | 457 (46.2%) |
| Part-time | 429 (34.4%) | 46 (42.2%) | 357 (36.1%) |
| Do not work | 275 (22.0%) | 26 (23.9%) | 176 (17.8%) |
| Education in years | 7.04 (2.70) | 6.59 (2.69) | 7.14 (2.62)* |
| Household | |||
| Size of household (SD) | 4.15 (2.08) | 4.01 (1.88) | 4.10 (2.13) |
| No. of working family members (SD) | 1.53 (1.02) | 1.63 (1.18) | 1.51 (1.02) |
| No. of children | 1.92 (.99) | 1.85 (.88) | 1.90 (.96) |
| Monthly household income | |||
| < 1000 | 694 (55.9%) | 67 (61.5%) | 547 (55.6%) |
| 1000–1999 | 366 (29.5%) | 29 (26.6%) | 279 (28.4%) |
| 2000–2999 | 119 (9.6%) | 8 (7.3%) | 105 (10.7%) |
| > 3000 | 63 (5.1%) | 5 (4.6%) | 52 (5.3%) |
| HIV infection | |||
| Duration since diagnosis (month) | 44.39 (29.90) | 51.58 (29.53) | 45.92 (29.85)* |
| Infection in family (yes) | 607 (48.4%) | 44 (39.6%) | 510 (51.4%)* |
aThe number of various items did not add to the total due to missing data.
*p < .05; **p < .01; ***p < .001.