Table 2.
ISUM participants pre-and post-trial confidence skills to judge and manage HIV-self test associated violence
| N | Very easy N (%) |
Fairly easy N (%) |
Fairly hard N (%) |
Very hard N (%) |
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Baseline: How hard or easy it would be for you to … | ||||||
| • Judge whether a sexual partner could become violent over taking a rapid HIV test | 295 | 87 (30%) | 119 (40%) | 78 (26%) | 11 (4%) | |
| • Avoid violent situations that might arise over taking a rapid home HIV test | 299 | 139 (47%) | 130 (44%) | 26 (9%) | 4 (1%) | |
| • Handle a violent situation that occurred as a result of using or proposing to use a rapid home HIV test | 299 | 114 (38%) | 145 (49%) | 38 (13%) | 2 (1%) | |
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Follow-up: How hard or easy it was for you to do each of the following things during the past three months: | ||||||
| N | Very easy N (%) |
Fairly easy N (%) |
Fairly hard N (%) |
Very hard N (%) |
N/A1 N (%) |
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| • Judge whether a sexual partner could become violent over taking a rapid HIV test | 128 | 39 (31%) | 45 (35%) | 20 (16%) | 7 (6%) | 17 (13%) |
| • Avoid violent situations that might arise over taking a rapid home HIV test | 128 | 37 (29%) | 31 (24%) | 9 (7%) | 0 (0%) | 51 (40%) |
| • Handle a violent situation that occurred as a result of using or proposing to use a rapid home HIV test | 127 | 30 (24%) | 25 (20%) | 6 (5%) | 1 (1%) | 65 (51%) |
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Not applicable, e.g., “I never did it.”