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Factors Affecting Intention to Disclose HIV Status among Adult Population in Sarawak, Malaysia
BACKGROUND: Disclosure of HIV-positive status is an essential prerequisite for the prevention and care of person living with HIV/AIDS as well as to tackle hidden epidemic in the society. OBJECTIVE: To determine the intention to disclose the HIV/AIDS status among adult population in Sarawak, Malaysia...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2194791 |
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author | Lemin, Aren Sinedeh Rahman, Md Mizanur Pangarah, Cliffton Akoi |
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description | BACKGROUND: Disclosure of HIV-positive status is an essential prerequisite for the prevention and care of person living with HIV/AIDS as well as to tackle hidden epidemic in the society. OBJECTIVE: To determine the intention to disclose the HIV/AIDS status among adult population in Sarawak, Malaysia, and factors affecting thereof. METHODS: This cross-sectional community-based study was conducted among adult population aged 18 years and above in Sarawak, Malaysia. A gender-stratified multistage cluster sampling technique was adopted to select the participants. A total of 900 respondents were successfully interviewed by face-to-face interview using interview schedule. Stepwise binary logistic regression models were fitted in SPSS version 22.0 to identify the factors associated with the disclosure of HIV/AIDS status. A p value less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. RESULTS: The mean (SD) age of male and female respondents was 41.57 (13.45) and 38.99 (13.09) years, respectively. A statistically significant difference of intention to disclosure of HIV status was found between males and females (p < 0.05). A stepwise binary logistic regression analysis revealed that age, occupation, knowledge on HIV transmission, and content of discussion about HIV/AIDS appeared to be potential predictors for male respondents to disclose HIV status, while ethnicity and content of discussion on HIV/AIDS were found to be important predictors among the female respondents (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: Though the study did not depict the national prevalence of disclosure of HIV/AIDS status, the findings of the study would provide an important basic information for programme intervention, policy, and future research agenda. |
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spelling | pubmed-61163892018-09-05 Factors Affecting Intention to Disclose HIV Status among Adult Population in Sarawak, Malaysia Lemin, Aren Sinedeh Rahman, Md Mizanur Pangarah, Cliffton Akoi J Environ Public Health Research Article BACKGROUND: Disclosure of HIV-positive status is an essential prerequisite for the prevention and care of person living with HIV/AIDS as well as to tackle hidden epidemic in the society. OBJECTIVE: To determine the intention to disclose the HIV/AIDS status among adult population in Sarawak, Malaysia, and factors affecting thereof. METHODS: This cross-sectional community-based study was conducted among adult population aged 18 years and above in Sarawak, Malaysia. A gender-stratified multistage cluster sampling technique was adopted to select the participants. A total of 900 respondents were successfully interviewed by face-to-face interview using interview schedule. Stepwise binary logistic regression models were fitted in SPSS version 22.0 to identify the factors associated with the disclosure of HIV/AIDS status. A p value less than 0.05 was considered as statistically significant. RESULTS: The mean (SD) age of male and female respondents was 41.57 (13.45) and 38.99 (13.09) years, respectively. A statistically significant difference of intention to disclosure of HIV status was found between males and females (p < 0.05). A stepwise binary logistic regression analysis revealed that age, occupation, knowledge on HIV transmission, and content of discussion about HIV/AIDS appeared to be potential predictors for male respondents to disclose HIV status, while ethnicity and content of discussion on HIV/AIDS were found to be important predictors among the female respondents (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION: Though the study did not depict the national prevalence of disclosure of HIV/AIDS status, the findings of the study would provide an important basic information for programme intervention, policy, and future research agenda. Hindawi 2018-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6116389/ /pubmed/30186334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2194791 Text en Copyright © 2018 Aren Sinedeh Lemin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Lemin, Aren Sinedeh Rahman, Md Mizanur Pangarah, Cliffton Akoi Factors Affecting Intention to Disclose HIV Status among Adult Population in Sarawak, Malaysia |
title | Factors Affecting Intention to Disclose HIV Status among Adult Population in Sarawak, Malaysia |
title_full | Factors Affecting Intention to Disclose HIV Status among Adult Population in Sarawak, Malaysia |
title_fullStr | Factors Affecting Intention to Disclose HIV Status among Adult Population in Sarawak, Malaysia |
title_full_unstemmed | Factors Affecting Intention to Disclose HIV Status among Adult Population in Sarawak, Malaysia |
title_short | Factors Affecting Intention to Disclose HIV Status among Adult Population in Sarawak, Malaysia |
title_sort | factors affecting intention to disclose hiv status among adult population in sarawak, malaysia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6116389/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30186334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/2194791 |
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