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HIV disclosure status and factors among adult HIV positive patients in a secondary health facility in North-Eastern Nigeria, 2011
INTRODUCTION: Disclosure of HIV status especially to sexual partners is an important prevention goal. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of HIV status disclosure and the factors associated with disclosure by HIV positive patients attending the adult Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) cl...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199349/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25328623 http://dx.doi.org/10.11694/pamj.supp.2014.18.1.3551 |
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author | Dankoli, Raymond Salanga Aliyu, Alhaji A Nsubuga, Peter Nguku, Patrick Ossai, Okechukwu P Tukur, Dahiru Ibrahim, Luka Madi, James E. Dalhat, Mahmood Abdullaziz, Mohammed |
author_facet | Dankoli, Raymond Salanga Aliyu, Alhaji A Nsubuga, Peter Nguku, Patrick Ossai, Okechukwu P Tukur, Dahiru Ibrahim, Luka Madi, James E. Dalhat, Mahmood Abdullaziz, Mohammed |
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description | INTRODUCTION: Disclosure of HIV status especially to sexual partners is an important prevention goal. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of HIV status disclosure and the factors associated with disclosure by HIV positive patients attending the adult Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) clinic in State Specialist Hospital Gombe (SSHG) a secondary health facility in north-eastern Nigeria. METHODS: We conducted a cross sectional study among adult HIV positive patients enrolled into the HIV/AIDS programme of SSHG. Study participant were sampled using a systematic random sampling. Interviewer administered questionnaire was used to collect data on socio-demographic characteristics, disclosure status and factors associated with disclosure. Data was analyzed using Epi-info software. RESULTS: Of the 198 (99%) respondents, 159 (80.3%) were females. The mean age of respondents was 32.9years (SD ± 9.5). Sixty percent of the respondents were married. Most (97.5%) had disclosed their HIV status and majority (36.8%) disclosed to their spouses. Sixty four percent of the respondents had treatment supporter and spouses (42.9%) were their choice of a treatment supporter. Disclosure of HIV status was found to be associated with age < 40years Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) 38.16; 95% Confidence Interval (CI) 2.42-602.61. Gender, employment status, educational level, duration of infection and marital status were not found to be significantly associated with disclosure of HIV status. CONCLUSION: Disclosure of HIV status was high in the study population. Spouses were the most preferred choice of persons to disclose HIV status to, and the most adopted as treatment supporter. HIV status disclosure is encouraged after diagnosis because of its importance especially among couples. |
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spelling | pubmed-41993492014-10-17 HIV disclosure status and factors among adult HIV positive patients in a secondary health facility in North-Eastern Nigeria, 2011 Dankoli, Raymond Salanga Aliyu, Alhaji A Nsubuga, Peter Nguku, Patrick Ossai, Okechukwu P Tukur, Dahiru Ibrahim, Luka Madi, James E. Dalhat, Mahmood Abdullaziz, Mohammed Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: Disclosure of HIV status especially to sexual partners is an important prevention goal. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of HIV status disclosure and the factors associated with disclosure by HIV positive patients attending the adult Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) clinic in State Specialist Hospital Gombe (SSHG) a secondary health facility in north-eastern Nigeria. METHODS: We conducted a cross sectional study among adult HIV positive patients enrolled into the HIV/AIDS programme of SSHG. Study participant were sampled using a systematic random sampling. Interviewer administered questionnaire was used to collect data on socio-demographic characteristics, disclosure status and factors associated with disclosure. Data was analyzed using Epi-info software. RESULTS: Of the 198 (99%) respondents, 159 (80.3%) were females. The mean age of respondents was 32.9years (SD ± 9.5). Sixty percent of the respondents were married. Most (97.5%) had disclosed their HIV status and majority (36.8%) disclosed to their spouses. Sixty four percent of the respondents had treatment supporter and spouses (42.9%) were their choice of a treatment supporter. Disclosure of HIV status was found to be associated with age < 40years Adjusted Odds Ratio (AOR) 38.16; 95% Confidence Interval (CI) 2.42-602.61. Gender, employment status, educational level, duration of infection and marital status were not found to be significantly associated with disclosure of HIV status. CONCLUSION: Disclosure of HIV status was high in the study population. Spouses were the most preferred choice of persons to disclose HIV status to, and the most adopted as treatment supporter. HIV status disclosure is encouraged after diagnosis because of its importance especially among couples. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2014-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4199349/ /pubmed/25328623 http://dx.doi.org/10.11694/pamj.supp.2014.18.1.3551 Text en © Raymond Salanga Dankoli et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Dankoli, Raymond Salanga Aliyu, Alhaji A Nsubuga, Peter Nguku, Patrick Ossai, Okechukwu P Tukur, Dahiru Ibrahim, Luka Madi, James E. Dalhat, Mahmood Abdullaziz, Mohammed HIV disclosure status and factors among adult HIV positive patients in a secondary health facility in North-Eastern Nigeria, 2011 |
title | HIV disclosure status and factors among adult HIV positive patients in a secondary health facility in North-Eastern Nigeria, 2011 |
title_full | HIV disclosure status and factors among adult HIV positive patients in a secondary health facility in North-Eastern Nigeria, 2011 |
title_fullStr | HIV disclosure status and factors among adult HIV positive patients in a secondary health facility in North-Eastern Nigeria, 2011 |
title_full_unstemmed | HIV disclosure status and factors among adult HIV positive patients in a secondary health facility in North-Eastern Nigeria, 2011 |
title_short | HIV disclosure status and factors among adult HIV positive patients in a secondary health facility in North-Eastern Nigeria, 2011 |
title_sort | hiv disclosure status and factors among adult hiv positive patients in a secondary health facility in north-eastern nigeria, 2011 |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199349/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25328623 http://dx.doi.org/10.11694/pamj.supp.2014.18.1.3551 |
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