HIV and AID’s related stigma, self esteem and resilience among adolescents of Kampala District

Abstract

The study was aimed at finding the relationship between HIV related stigma, self-esteem and resilience among HIV positive adolescent of TASO Mulago, Kampala district. The study targeted 50 adolescents selected in an overall population of 500 service recipients at TASO Kampala district in central region of Uganda. The researcher used simple random sampling technique during the period of data collection. The respondents who took part in the study were aged 12 to 19 years and both male and female. The objectives of the study were to examine the relationship between HIV related stigma and self-esteem among adolescent, to examine the relationship between self-esteem and resilience among HIV positive adolescents and to examine the relationship between HIV related stigma and resilience among HIV positive adolescents. The hypotheses were tested using the Pearson correlation coefficient. The study results showed that there is a significant relationship between HIV related stigma and self-esteem among adolescent (r = 0.552, p = 0.000<0.01). Results showed that there is no significant relationship between self-esteem and resilience among adolescents (r=0.209, p= 0.145>0.05) and there is no significant relationship between HIV related stigma and resilience among adolescents (r = -0.107, p=0.461>0.05).