Basaveshwara Medical College and Hospital, Chitradurga, Karnataka, India.
Indian J Public Health. 2012 Apr-Jun;56(2):116-21. doi: 10.4103/0019-557X.99901.
HIV/AIDS is fatal illness which leaves the victim vulnerable. Quality of life in individuals living with HIV/AIDS is becoming crucial for measuring commonly used endpoints. The study of psychosocial factors also influences the health outcome of People Living with HIV/AIDS.
To assess the Quality of life of PLHA in relation to various socio-demographic and clinical correlates.
A community care center in Chitradurga district and it is a Cross sectional study.
About 395 PLHAs registered in the centre constituted the sample. WHOQOL - 120 instrument was used for assessing quality of life. The socio demographic factors were also obtained in pre designed proforma.
Proportions, Mean, Std deviation, One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA).
The Quality of Life scores for all domains were intermediate for the PLHAs between (10 - 14). The mean scores were highest for psychological domain. There was a significant difference in QOL of PLHA who were on ART and Not on ART in some domains. PLHAs who were literates, married, Single, employed, income more than 1500 not on ART, CD4 count more than 200, earlier stages of HIV, living with spouse and students had high mean scores. Mean difference of QOL scores with duration of ART intake were statistically significant in psychological and Spirituality domains. QOL was found to be determined by education, income, occupation, ART status, duration of taking ART and clinical categories of the disease.
艾滋病是一种致命的疾病，会使患者变得脆弱。生活在艾滋病病毒/艾滋病（HIV/AIDS）患者的生活质量对于衡量常用终点至关重要。社会心理因素的研究也会影响艾滋病毒感染者/艾滋病患者的健康结果。
评估与各种社会人口统计学和临床相关因素相关的 PLHA 的生活质量。
这是一项在奇塔杜尔加地区的社区护理中心进行的横断面研究。
该中心登记的大约 395 名 PLHAs 构成了样本。使用 WHOQOL-120 工具评估生活质量。还在预先设计的表格中获得了社会人口统计学因素。
比例、平均值、标准差、单因素方差分析（ANOVA）。
PLHAs 的所有领域的生活质量评分均处于中等水平（10-14 分）。心理领域的平均得分最高。在接受和未接受抗逆转录病毒治疗（ART）的 PLHA 之间，一些领域的 QOL 存在显著差异。受过教育、已婚、单身、有工作、收入超过 1500 元、未接受 ART、CD4 计数超过 200、处于 HIV 早期阶段、与配偶和学生一起生活的 PLHAs 的平均得分较高。ART 摄入时间的 QOL 评分均值差异在心理和精神领域具有统计学意义。生活质量取决于教育、收入、职业、ART 状况、接受 ART 的时间长短和疾病的临床分类。
