Table 1.
Participant characteristics
| Adolescents (k=3, n=30) |
Parents (k=3, n=27) |
Key informants (n=25) |
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| Ethnicity and population group | |||
| Black African | 100% | 100% | 48% |
| White | 44% | ||
| Coloured | 8% | ||
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| 1st Language | |||
| isiXhosa | 100% | 100% | 44% |
| English | 36% | ||
| Afrikaans | 19% | ||
| Other | 1% | ||
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| Age (mean, range) | 13.7 years (13-15 years) | 43.4 years (20-61 years) | 41 years (28-67 years) |
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| Gender | |||
| Male | 90% | 4% | 24% |
| Female | 10% | 96% | 75% |
| Trans | 0% | 0% | 1% |
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| Education (mean) | Grade 6 | Grade 8 | — |
| Grade 12 | 24% | ||
| Bachelors | 36% | ||
| Masters or above | 40% | ||
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| Orphaned | 1/3 | — | — |
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| Relationship to caregiver | |||
| Biological parent | 63% | — | — |
| Extended family or other adult | 37% | ||
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| Socioeconomic status | |||
| Employed | — | 18% | — |
| Government social welfare grants main source of household income | 63% | ||