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The parent disclosure interview.

D J Pilowsky1, N Sohler, E Susser

  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine & Kennedy-Krieger Institute, Baltimore, MD, USA. pilowsky@kennedykrieger.org

AIDS Care
|October 26, 1999
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The Parent Disclosure Interview (PDI) offers a reliable method for assessing parental HIV status disclosure to children. This tool aids researchers and clinicians in understanding disclosure

Area of Science:

  • Pediatrics
  • Psychology
  • Public Health

Background:

  • Increasing numbers of HIV-infected mothers and children in the USA necessitate clear understanding of disclosure.
  • Current methods for assessing parental HIV status disclosure to children lack reliability.
  • Reliable assessment tools are crucial for studying the benefits and risks of disclosure.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and evaluate the reliability of the Parent Disclosure Interview (PDI).
  • To provide a dependable instrument for research and clinical practice concerning HIV status disclosure.

Main Methods:

  • The Parent Disclosure Interview (PDI) was developed.
  • Twenty-nine HIV-infected mothers participated in the reliability study.
  • The PDI was administered twice to each mother, one week apart, by two different interviewers.

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Main Results:

  • Kappa statistics demonstrated high reliability for the PDI across most content areas.
  • The PDI proves to be a dependable tool for assessing disclosure.

Conclusions:

  • The PDI is a reliable and comprehensive interview for evaluating parental HIV status disclosure to children.
  • This instrument can be utilized by researchers to compare disclosure prevalence and by practitioners for baseline assessments.