Table 3.

Barriers to parental disclosure of their HIV+ status to children

Item	Loading		Degree of importance
	1	2	Not important	A little important	Important	Very important
Worry that the children will ask them how they got infected	0.559	0.310	143 (64.4)	12 (5.4)	27 (12.2)	40 (18.0)
Worry that the children will not care about them if they found out that their parent has AIDS	0.419	0.399	185 (83.7)	6 (2.7)	10 (4.5)	20 (9.1)
Their children may tell other people about their HIV infection	0.525	0.508	78 (35.3)	14 (6.3)	19 (8.6)	110 (49.8)
They do not want to worry or upset the children	0.840	−0.052	61 (27.6)	19 (8.6)	20 (9.1)	121 (54.8)
Concerned that they will have to talk to the children about death or dying	0.846	−0.090	99 (45.2)	18 (8.2)	28 (12.8)	74 (33.8)
The children may not understand it	−0.164	0.847	62 (27.9)	8 (3.6)	18 (8.1)	134 (60.4)