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Published in final edited form as: Health Psychol Behav Med. 2017 Jan 30;5(1):145–165. doi: 10.1080/21642850.2016.1276459

Table 2.

Sample characteristics, including demographics on the children and the caregivers.

Variable name	M(SD) or N(%)
Carer age	43.45 (15.01)
Carer gender	903 (94.9%)
Carer HIV status	185 (19.4%)
Carer mental health	112 (11.8%)
Biological parent	461 (46.6%)
Stigma	0.14 (0.51)
Number of adults in the household	6.42 (2.90)
Living in a shack	152 (15.4%)
Child age	8.91 (2.84)
Child gender	503 (50.9%)
Child HIV status	135 (13.7%)

Notes. Gender variables display the number of females in the sample. The mental health variable displays the number of carers scoring above the cut-off for depression. The HIV variables display the number of HIV-positive individuals.