They completed a questionnaire about family socio-demographic characteristics, HIV disclosure, and child demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Life Stress Scale, Support Function Scale, and Impact on Family Scale which were pre-tested and translated into the local Chichewa language.  Using the newer band categorisations of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, parent version, 31% of primary caregivers reported that their child had a slightly raised to very high level of total difficulties. 
Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire
They completed a questionnaire about family socio-demographic characteristics, HIV disclosure, and child demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Life Stress Scale, Support Function Scale, and Impact on Family Scale which were pre-tested and translated into the local Chichewa language. 
Life Stress Scale
They completed a questionnaire about family socio-demographic characteristics, HIV disclosure, and child demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Life Stress Scale, Support Function Scale, and Impact on Family Scale which were pre-tested and translated into the local Chichewa language. 
Support Function Scale
They completed a questionnaire about family socio-demographic characteristics, HIV disclosure, and child demographic and clinical characteristics, as well as the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire, Life Stress Scale, Support Function Scale, and Impact on Family Scale which were pre-tested and translated into the local Chichewa language. 
Impact on Family Scale
BMC psychiatry
D000293:Adolescent; D017028:Caregivers; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections; D006801:Humans; D008295:Malawi; D008297:Male; D008603:Mental Health; D015995:Prevalence; D011897:Random Allocation; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
Kalembo Fatch W FW 0000-0003-3032-3495;Kendall Garth E GE ;Ali Mohammed M ;Chimwaza Angela F AF 