Table 3.

Association between HIV Status Disclosure and Depression at Study Enrollment

	Univariate		Multivariate
Independent variables	Parameter	P-value	Parameter	P-value
Main exposures
Comfort level
Not comfortable	3.6237	0.062
Somewhat Comfortable	1.2402	0.516
Comfortable	0.8221	0.705
Very comfortable	0
Time to first disclosure
A few months after	5.796	0.008	4.687	0.008
A few weeks after	9.986	0.010	2.687	0.447
within a few days	0		0
Extent of disclosure to social network
None	−0.0396	0.985
Very few	0.644	0.728
Some of them	2.4244	0.407
About half	−1.2615	0.609
Most of them	0.2018	0.920
All or nearly all	0
Age	−0.091	0.363
Education
Lower than high school	0
Completed high school	−0.179	0.938
Above high school	−3.711	0.086
Income $12000 or less	5.808	<0.001	2.659	0.077
Enrollment waves
Pre- HAART	1.249	0.456
Post- HAART	0
Log10 (HIV RNA level)	−1.414	0.046	−1.568	0.011
Quality of life	−0.384	<.001	−0.348	<.001

Note: covariates adjusted for in the multivariate model include income level, Log10(HIV RNA level) and Quality of life.