Caregiver compliance to disclosure
REGRESSION
Ninety-one percent of caregiver-child dyads who participated in the HADITHI intervention completed follow-up disclosure questionnaires until 24 months post-intervention. Eighty clinical and demographic covariates collected from the 60 caregiver-child dyads who participated in the HADITHI intervention were entered into the regression procedure. Two of the 80 predictors—caregiver isolation (test statistic = 8.79, Child and caregiver characteristics predicting post-intervention HIV disclosure status.Caregivers who experienced isolation, defined as responding “ever happened” to the prompt “Because the child or someone else in my family has HIV or because I have HIV, I am isolated or avoided by others” on the SAFI stigma questionnaire, were significantly less likely to disclose their child's HIV status to them post-intervention. While 44 out of 52 (84.6%) of non-isolated caregivers disclosed HIV status after the intervention, only 3 out of 8 (37.5%) of isolated caregivers disclosed. In addition, children who had been on ARVs for an increased time prior to the intervention were less likely to be disclosed to about their HIV status post-intervention. The mean (SD) length of time on ARVs for children who were disclosed to was 1.3 (1.5) years, while that of those who were not disclosed to was 2.5 (2.4) years.