Parental HIV disclosure in Burkina Faso: Experiences and challenges in the era of HAART

Figures & data

Table 1. Participants' characteristics, parental disclosure, Burkina Faso, 2006.

Participants' characteristics	Number	%	Disclosure (%)	p-value*
Parental disclosure	63	100	47.6
Gender				0.006
Female	37	59	62.2
Male	26	41	26.9
Age group				0.013
[20–40 years]	27	43	29.6
[41–63 years]	36	57	61.1
Marital history				0.046
Widowed, divorced and single parent	45	71	55.6
None of above	18	29	27.8
Education level				0.893
Illiterate	14	22	50
Primary school	16	25	56.2
Secondary school	25	40	40
University or higher education	4	6	50
Autodidact or Coranic school	4	6	50
Religion				0.498
Christian	35	56	51.4
Muslim	28	44	42.9
Years since HIV test				0.767
[3–5 years]	39	62	46.2
[6–10 years]	24	38	50
Duration on HAART				0.720
[3–4 years]	47	75	48.9
[5–6 years]	16	25	43.8
Profession category				0.099
Non paid labour	17	27	64.7
Paid labour	46	73	41.3
Number of children				0.009
1 or 2	34	54	32.4
3 and more	29	46	65.5
Parents with children				0.008
Aged 18 and above	33	52	63.6
Aged below 18	30	48	30
*Pearson's chi-square test at 5% level of significance.

Table 2. Binary logistic regression, parental disclosure, Burkina Faso, 2006.

Variables in the equation	Sig.	Exp(B)
Gender (Female/Male)	0.041	5.544
Children above 18 years (Yes/No)	0.491	1.745
History of divorce, single parenthood or widowhood (No/Yes)	0.964	0.965
Age group of parent (≤40, >40)	0.219	0.348
No of children (≤2, >2)	0.136	0.347
Paid labour (No/Yes)	0.549	1.550
Religion (Christian/Muslim)	0.462	1.623
Duration on HAART (>5, ≤5 years)	0.322	0.476
Constant	0.940	0.917
Hosmer and Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test
Step	Chi-square	df	Sig.
1	13.033	8	0.111
Note: For all independent variables in the logistic model, the reference category is listed first. For example, for gender, females are the reference category meaning that females are 5.5 times more likely than men to disclose. For age group of parent, 20–40 years (≤40) is the reference category. We see from the analysis above that parents in the age group 20–40 years are 0.35 times less likely to disclose. The latter was not statistically significant though.