Understanding and Preventing Potential Social Harms and Abuses of Oral HIV Self-Testing in Kenya

KENYA, 2013
Health and Well-Being (HaW)

African Population and Health Research Center

CSV JSON

If result is positive, what will you most likely do? (v506a)

Data file: Individual Data

Overview

vald 1020

invd 119

Interval discrete

Decimal 0

Range 1 - 98

Questions and instructions

Literal question

Let's hypothetically asssume that you self-test and the result is positive, what would you do first?

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	SEEK COUNSELING	394	38.6%
2	INFORM SEXUAL PARTNERS	18	1.8%
3	KEEP THE RESULTS SECRET	36	3.5%
4	INTENTIONNALLY INFECT OTHERS	1	0.1%
5	SEEK FOR REVENGE	3	0.3%
6	HAVE RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIORS SINCE ALREADY INFECTED	4	0.4%
7	STOP ENGAGING IN SOCIAL ACTIVITIES	3	0.3%
8	ABUSE ALCOHOL/DRUGS	4	0.4%
9	GO INTO DEPRESSION	89	8.7%
10	COMMIT SUICIDE	18	1.8%
11	CONFIRM RESULTS	210	20.6%
12	SEEK MEDICATION	150	14.7%
96	OTHER	65	6.4%
98	DON'T KNOW	25	2.5%
Sysmiss		119

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

Question post text

If response is 1 then go to 506b else go to 507

Interviewer instructions

[IF RESPONDENT GIVES MULTIPLE RESPONSES ASK THEM WHAT ONE THING THEY WOULD DO FIRST]