“When I receive the message, it is a sign of love”: symbolic connotations of SMS messages for people living with HIV in Burkina Faso

Figures & data

Table 1. Average treatment effect for psychosocial outcomes.

Subjective health status	Self-assessed health status since last survey	Statement: Life is beautiful	Currently happy	Expects to be happy in future
−0.002	0.044**	0.047	0.130***	0.132***
(0.017)	(0.021)	(0.040)	(0.043)	(0.043)
Has faith in life	Not worried about the risk of falling ill	Does not feel alone	Considers forgiveness as important	Average effect
0.127*	0.075	0.031	0.014	0.070***
(0.071)	(0.049)	(0.032)	(0.017)	(0.026)

Note: A seemingly unrelated regression is employed. The specification contains the following control variables: Health center fixed effects, time effects, gender (an individual being female is coded as 1, zero otherwise), age, dummy variable for being single, dummy variable for being married, dummy variable for being a member of the largest ethnicity (Mossi), dummy variable for being the household head, dummy variable for completed primary education, dummy variable for completed education at the level of secondary 1, dummy variable for completed education at the level of secondary 2, dummy variable for higher education, household size, dummy variable for living in an urban area, number of HIV group meetings attended. Coefficients associated with the control variables are not shown for the sake of brevity. Standard errors of the average effect account for correlation in the error term across outcome variables. ***/**/* indicates statistical significance at the 1/5/10% level.

Data availability statement

All relevant qualitative data used and/or analyzed during the current study are within the manuscript.