Inmaculada Sánchez-Machín, Paloma Poza-Guedes, Elena Mederos-Luis, Ruperto González-Pérez
The paradigm shift in allergy consultations through a digital ecosystem
Frontiers in digital health
negative effects stigma discrimination communities families include medication nonadherence heightened psychological distress verbal physical abuse lack social support isolation dangerous health behaviors hiding prescriptions despite huge burden hivaids discriminatory attitudes limited studies conducted ghana therefore study examines burden discriminatory attitudes determinant factors people living hivaids ghana study aimed determine prevalence discriminatory attitudes associated factors among people living hivaids ghana based recent dhs data secondary data analysis used multilevel logistic regression analysis based ghana demographic health survey 2022 data extraction cleaning analysis conducted using stata version 14 community ghana 15 49 age group used study final sample size 22058 participants four separate models fitted incorporating individual community levels multilevel logistic regression models calibrated determine associated factors individual community level discriminatory attitudes 95 ci aor prevalence discriminatory attitudes toward people living hivaids 6092 95 ci 6013 6170 among ghana dhs lower wealth status comprehensive knowledge hiv low educational status individual level low wealth status community level poorest poorer aor 203 95 ci 104 394 aor 209 95 ci 184 865 respectively comprehensive knowledge aor 342 95 ci 174 673 primary education aor 318 95 ci 248 551 aor 378 95 ci 268 592 respectively individual level low wealth status aor 158 95 ci 100 246 community level associated factors prevalence discriminatory attitudes toward people living hivaids high 6092 ghanas dhs associated factors study lower wealth status comprehensive knowledge hiv low educational status individual level