Yu Nancy Xiaonan
Department of Applied Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, HKSAR, China.
Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2017 Jun 17;15(1):127. doi: 10.1186/s12955-017-0703-z.
This cross-sectional study examined the actor and partner effects of beliefs about AIDS-related death on quality of life in Chinese married couples in which both were living with HIV.
A total of 49 married couples in central China who were both infected with HIV completed measures to assess their beliefs about AIDS-related death and quality of life.
In the actor-partner interdependence model, the husband-wife dyad showed congruence in their beliefs about AIDS-related death (r = .40) and quality of life-mental health summary (r = .31), respectively, within the couple. Both actor and partner effects of beliefs about AIDS-related death on the quality of life-mental health summary, rather than the quality of life-physical health summary, were significant within the husband-wife dyad.
Our findings indicate the dyadic interdependence of beliefs about AIDS-related death and the quality of life-mental health summary in married couples. Psychosocial interventions that target a reduction of negative death beliefs and enhancement of well-being in the context of HIV should treat the couple as a unit.
本横断面研究考察了在中国夫妻双方均感染艾滋病毒的已婚夫妇中,与艾滋病相关死亡的信念对生活质量的个体效应和伴侣效应。
在中国中部地区,共有49对均感染艾滋病毒的已婚夫妇完成了评估其与艾滋病相关死亡信念和生活质量的测量。
在个体-伴侣相互依存模型中,夫妻二人在与艾滋病相关死亡信念(r = 0.40)和生活质量-心理健康概况(r = 0.31)方面分别表现出一致性。在夫妻二人中,与艾滋病相关死亡信念对生活质量-心理健康概况而非生活质量-身体健康概况的个体效应和伴侣效应均显著。
我们的研究结果表明,在已婚夫妇中,与艾滋病相关死亡信念和生活质量-心理健康概况存在二元相互依存关系。在艾滋病毒背景下,旨在减少负面死亡信念并增进幸福感的心理社会干预措施应将夫妻视为一个整体。