Table 1.
Characteristics of adolescents living with HIV from 11 ART clinics in Cambodia
| Socio-demographic characteristics | Total (n = 328) |
Males (n = 169) |
Females (n = 159) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | n (%) | n (%) | P-value* | |
| Mean age (in years) | 15.9 ± 0.8 | 15.8 ± 0.8 | 16.0 ± 0.8 | 0.06 |
| Level of formal education | 0.76 | |||
| Primary school or lower | 92 (28.0) | 50 (20.7) | 42 (26.4) | |
| Secondary school | 168 (51.3) | 86 (50.9) | 82 (51.6) | |
| High school or higher | 68 (20.7) | 33 (19.5) | 35 (22.0) | |
| Currently living with: | 0.33 | |||
| Parents | 140 (42.7) | 73 (43.2) | 67 (42.1) | |
| Grandparents | 49 (14.9) | 29 (12.7) | 20 (12.6) | |
| Relatives | 106 (32.3) | 54 (32.0) | 52 (32.7) | |
| In an orphanage | 27 (8.2) | 12 (7.1) | 15 (9.4) | |
| Other | 6 (1.8) | 1 (0.6) | 5 (3.1) | |
| Mother is still alive | 0.18 | |||
| No | 167 (60.9) | 80 (47.3) | 87 (54.7) | |
| Yes | 161 (49.1) | 89 (52.7) | 72 (45.3) | |
| Mother’s education level | 0.12 | |||
| No education | 20 (12.7) | 7 (8.1) | 13 (18.1) | |
| Primary school | 53 (33.5) | 27 (31.4) | 26 (36.1) | |
| Secondary school | 24 (15.2) | 14 (16.3) | 10 (13.9) | |
| High school or higher | 24 (15.2) | 12 (14.0) | 12 (16.7) | |
| Don’t know | 37 (23.4) | 26 (30.2) | 11 (15.3) | |
| Father is still alive | 0.82 | |||
| No | 198 (60.4) | 101 (59.8) | 97 (61.0) | |
| Yes | 130 (39.6) | 68 (40.2) | 62 (39.0) | |
| Father’s education level | 0.04 | |||
| No education | 9 (5.6) | 4 (6.2) | 3 (4.3) | |
| Primary school | 33 (26.2) | 12 (18.8) | 21 (33.9) | |
| Secondary school | 18 (14.3) | 8 (12.5) | 10 (16.1) | |
| High school or higher | 28 (24.3) | 9 (14.1) | 14 (22.6) | |
| Don’t know | 45 (35.7) | 31 (48.4) | 14 (22.6) | |
| Main daily caregiver: | 0.57 | |||
| Parent | 187 (57.0) | 102 (60.4) | 85 (53.5) | |
| Grand parent | 5 (1.5) | 2 (1.2) | 3 (1.9) | |
| Sibling | 24 (7.3) | 9 (5.3) | 15 (9.4) | |
| Relatives | 100 (30.5) | 50 (29.6) | 50 (31.4) | |
| Orphanage/NGO staff | 12 (3.7) | 6 (3.6) | 6 (3.8) | |
| Main caregiver’s education level: | < 0.001 | |||
| Primary school or lower | 14 (7.2) | 2 (2.1) | 12 (12.1) | |
| Secondary school | 40 (20.5) | 8 (8.3) | 32 (32.3) | |
| High school | 11 (5.6) | 6 (6.2) | 5 (5.1) | |
| University or higher | 29 (14.9) | 16 (16.7) | 13 (13.1) | |
| Don’t know | 101 (51.8) | 64 (66.7) | 37 (37.4) | |
Values are number (%) for categorical variables and mean (standard deviation) for continuous variables
* Chi-square test or Fisher’s exact test as appropriate was used for continuous variables, and Student’s t-test for continuous variables