ArticleJournal of HIV/AIDS & social services2017
The dyadic effects of HIV stigma on the mental health of children and their parents in South Africa.
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- The Impact of Child Emotional and Behavioral Difficulties on Caregivers' Mental Health: Insights from Families of Children Orphaned by HIV in Southern Uganda.Global social welfare : research, policy & practice · 2026Article
- HIV-related stressors and psychological functioning among adolescents living with perinatal HIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Community stigma and discrimination against the incidence of HIV and AIDS.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Article
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- Children's Positive and Negative Emotional Responses to an HIV Disclosure Study in South Africa.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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- Maternal HIV Stigma and Child Adjustment: Qualitative and Quantitative Perspectives.Journal of child and family studies · 2021Article
- Longitudinal Bidirectional Relations among Parenting Quality, Parenting Stress, and Child Functioning in HIV-affected Families.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2021Article
- Depressive symptoms among children attending community based support in South Africa - pathways for disrupting risk factors.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2020Article
- Patients' perspectives of acceptability of ART, TB and maternal health services in a subdistrict of Johannesburg, South Africa.BMC health services research · 2018Article
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Abstract
HIV stigma - both 'self-stigma' towards positive individuals and 'stigma by association' towards their families - is linked with adverse mental health. This study examined how stigma was associated with the mental health of parents and children in South Africa. Parent-child dyads (n=2477 dyads) in South Africa participated in a cross-sectional survey. For both parents and children, greater stigma was associated with their own reports of greater anxious and depressive symptoms. Parents reports of stigma was associated with children's greater anxious and depressive symptoms. Children's reports of stigma was related to parents greater anxious and depressive symptoms. There was a significant interaction, such that the association between parent stigma and depression was stronger when children also reported high levels of stigma. Findings provide support the effect of HIV stigma on the mental health of families and illustrate the importance of taking a family-based approach to stigma-reduction interventions to alleviate mental health problems.
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