Table V:
Reported use of coping strategies, as related to HIV status among adolescents in Nigeria (N=600)
| Coping strategies | HIV status |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| HIV negative (N=151) | HIV positive (N=449) | X2 | P value | |
| Confrontation | 54 (35.8%) | 148 (33.0%) | 0.4 | 0.53 |
| Seek social support | 61 (40.4%) | 271 (60.4%) | 18.21 | <0.001 |
| Planful problem solving | 56 (37.1%) | 160 (35.6%) | 0.1 | 0.75 |
| Religion | 62 (41.1%) | 245 (54.6%) | 8.25 | 0.004 |
| Positive appraisal | 57 (37.7%) | 128 (28.5%) | 4.52 | 0.03 |
| Acceptance | 54 (35.8%) | 175 (39.0%) | 0.49 | 0.48 |
| Escape/denial | 25 (16.6%) | 74 (16.5%) | 0.0005 | 0.98 |
| Mental disengagement | 30 (19.9%) | 112 (24.9%) | 4.99 | 0.03 |
| Behavioral disengagement | 27 (17.9) | 115 (25.6%) | 3.74 | 0.053 |
| Alcohol/drug use | 13 (8.6%) | 43 (9.6%) | 0.13 | 0.72 |
| Humor | 45 (29.8%) | 91 (20.3%) | 5.86 | 0.02 |
| Suppression of competing activities | 29 (19.2%) | 66 (14.7%) | 1.72 | 0.19 |
| Journaling | 16 (10.6%) | 46 (10.2%) | 0.02 | 0.9 |