Table 5: Outcome of HIV positive status disclosure on HIV positive children, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2021.
|
Frequency |
Percentage |
Outcomes of |
|
|
What was the child's immediate reaction encountered after HIV sero status disclosure? |
Crying |
24 |
7.7 |
|
Accepted |
65 |
21 |
|
|
Depression |
16 |
5.2 |
|
|
Anger |
26 |
8.4 |
|
|
Hopelessness |
13 |
4.2 |
|
|
Others (specify) |
8 |
2.6 |
|
|
How is the child's adherence of medications following HIV sero status disclosure? |
Good adherence |
114 |
36.8 |
|
Fair adherence |
35 |
11.3 |
|
|
poor adherence |
3 |
1 |
|
|
Others (specify) |
15 |
8.9 |
|
|
What is the child's health condition following HIV status disclosure? (Multiple answers possible) |
Increase CD4 count |
42 |
13.5 |
|
Less disease progression |
26 |
7.4 |
|
|
Decrease CD4 count |
8 |
1 |
|
|
More disease progression |
25 |
7.4 |
|
|
No change |
66 |
19.7 |
|
|
What was the child's social relation following HIV sero status disclosure? (Multiple answers possible) |
Withdrawal from peers |
6 |
1.9 |
|
Increase relation with caregiver's |
21 |
6.8 |
|
|
Blaming caregiver's |
6 |
1.9 |
|
|
Keep secrets |
61 |
19.7 |
|
|
Tooled to other people |
9 |
1.3 |
|
|
Felt disclosure was important |
31 |
10 |
|
|
Took care of him/her self-better |
23 |
7.4 |
|
|
Chilled being able to protect him/herself and others |
10 |
3.1 |
|
|
What was respondent (caregiver’s) concrete feeling following the child HIV status disclosure? (Multiple answers possible) |
Relief after disclosure |
54 |
17.4 |
|
Fell not important disclosure |
15 |
4.8 |
|
|
Disclosure is important and encouraging |
88 |
28.4 |
|
|
No different felling |
9 |
2.9 |
|
|
Others (specify) |
1 |
0.3 |