Disclosure of Children's Positive Serostatus to Family and Nonfamily Members: Informal Caregivers in Togo, West Africa

Table 1

(a) Descriptive statistics of sample and binary logistic models predicting caregivers’ disclosure of child’s serostatus. (b) Descriptive statistics o f sample and binary logistic regression models predicting caregivers’ disclosure of child’s serostatus (𝑁=201). (c) Descriptive statistics of sample and binary logistic regression models predicting caregivers’ disclosure of child’s serostatus (𝑁=201). (^{(1, 2, 3)}Reference categories have odds ratios = 1.)

(a)

Explanatory variables			Disclosed for financial support			Disclosed for emotional support
				95% CI			95% CI
Descriptive statistics			Odds ratio	Lower	Upper	Odds ratio	Lower	Upper
Age group	𝑁	Mean = 41.66
Less than 30	26	(13%)	0.358	0.072	1.791	0.487	0.102	2.326
30 to 49	124	(62%)	0.390	0.145	1.048	0.496	0.190	1.295
50 and above	51	(25%)	1^1			1
Sex
Male	55	(27%)	2.042	0.387	4.986	1.421	0.596	3.389
Female	146	(73%)	1			1
Serostatus of caregiver
Do not know	47	(23%)	0.697	0.2226	2.190	0.692	0.230	2.083
HIV negative	88	(44%)	0.416	0.180	0.963	0.347	0.152	0.792
HIV positive	66	(33%)	1			1
Marital status
Married	114	(57%)	1.342	0.640	2.813	2.135	1.026	4.440
Not married	87	(43%)	1
Educational attainment		Mean = 8.62
No formal education	30	(15%)	2.448	0.514	11.655	0.847	0.176	4.065
Primary education	69	(34%)	3.643	0.987	13.450	2.473	0.668	9.147
Secondary education	76	(38%)	2.217	0.644	7.631	2.368	0.679	8.255
Higher	26	(13%)	1			1
Religion
Catholic	95	(47%)	0.992	0.240	4.094	0.944	0.225	3.963
Protestant	86	(43%)	1.651	0.396	6.882	0.928	0.221	3.899
Islam	9	(5%)	0.277	0.032	2.414	0.744	0.097	5.704
Traditional/other	11	(5%)	1			1
Number of children	201	Mean = 3.08	0.778	0.638	0.949	0.894	0.740	1.081

(b)

Explanatory Variables	Disclosed for spiritual support			Disclosed to my own family members
		95% CI			95% CI
	Odds ratio	Lower	Upper	Odds ratio	Lower	Upper
Age group
Less than 30	4.718	0.839	26.537	0.148	0.028	7.795
30 to 49	2.373	0.778	7.233	0.239	0.081	0.706
50 and above	1^2			1
Sex
Male	0.803	0.372	2.071	1.207	0.495	2.947
Female	1			1
Serostatus of caregiver
Do not know	1.292	0.372	4.482	0.480	0.149	1.543
HIV negative	0.700	0.287	1.711	0.613	0.261	1.441
HIV positive	1			1
Marital status
Married	1.430	0.639	3.202	0.921	0.428	1.980
Not married	1			1
Educational attainment
No formal education	2.717	0.231	31.929	3.814	0.808	18.014
Primary education	19.442	2.051	184.335	5.060	1.364	18.773
Secondary education	7.566	0.835	68.587	5.586	1.611	19.369
Higher	1			1
Religion
Catholic	4.712	0.485	45.745	1.364	0.328	5.676
Protestant	18.192	1.868	177.199	1.139	0.275	4.725
Islam	1.447	0.064	32.798	1.179	0.153	9.075
Traditional/other	1			1
Number of children	1.047	0.837	1.309	0.853	0.702	1.037

(c)

Explanatory Variables	Disclosed to nonfamily members			Disclosed to own children
		95% CI			95% CI
	Odds ratio	Lower	Upper	Odds ratio	Lower	Upper
Age group
Less than 30	0.652	0.124	3.429	0.010	0.028	7.795
30 to 49	0.722	0.253	2.067	0.198	0.056	0.691
50 and above	1^3			1
Sex
Male	1.433	0.577	3.556	0.165	0.052	0.529
Female	1			1
Serostatus of caregiver
Do not know	0.718	0.223	0.223	3.011	0.680	13.338
HIV negative	0.377	0.154	0.924	5.577	1.821	17.077
HIV positive	1			1
Marital status
Married	1.370	0.630	2.978	3.832	1.341	10.951
Not married	1			1
Educational attainment
No formal education	1.833	0.259	12.951	1.335	0.157	11.314
Primary education	3.229	0.587	17.762	1.068	0.194	5.865
Secondary education	3.137	0.597	16.478	1.464	0.287	7.479
Higher	1			1
Religion
Catholic	1.615	0.289	9.032	0.509	0.087	2.978
Protestant	2.178	0.395	12.025	0.474	0.080	2.828
Islam	0.501	0.033	7.602	0.184	0.012	2.811
Traditional/other	1			1
Number of children	0.955	0.783	1.166	1.685	1.269	2.293