General Oncology Hospital "Oi Agioi Anargyroi", Kifisia, Greece.
National School of Public Administration and Local Government, Athens, Greece.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2021;1337:205-210. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-78771-4_23.
The aim of this study was the evaluation of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of HIV-infected patients and the effect of their illness in their living costs.
This is a cross-sectional study and the study sample, which was a sample of convenience, included 98 HIV-infected patients from March to May 2019 at the General Oncology hospital "Oi Agioi Anargyroi" in Greece. The main tools of the survey were the Greek version of the MOS-HIV and a questionnaire used for measuring rehabilitation costs in trauma patients adjusted for the needs of the this study.
A total of 98 patients were inducted in our study aged 49.3 ± 11.3 years, most of them males (68.3%). HRQoL was assessed in 11 individual dimensions. The highest score was found in the dimensions of role functioning (73.47 ± 36.93), physical functioning (72.53 ± 26.65), and social functioning (71.63 ± 32.3). Regarding the patients' living costs over the last month due to their illness, the highest burden comes from other expenses (152.4 ± 179.5), services provided by a psychologist (142.8 ± 170.6) and medical visits (142.8 ± 170.6).
As the HIV infection is characterized as a chronic disease, the economic cost due to the illness needs to be studied as it affects the extent to which an HIV-infected patient can access medical care and meet emerging needs. Therefore, future research should focus in the economic dimension of the illness in relation with the quality of life of these patients and their relatives, so that new health policies may arise.
本研究旨在评估 HIV 感染患者的健康相关生活质量（HRQoL）及其疾病对生活成本的影响。
这是一项横断面研究，研究样本为 2019 年 3 月至 5 月期间在希腊“Oi Agioi Anargyroi”综合肿瘤医院的 98 名 HIV 感染患者，采用方便抽样法。调查的主要工具是希腊版 MOS-HIV 和一份用于测量创伤患者康复费用的问卷，并根据本研究的需要进行了调整。
共有 98 名年龄为 49.3±11.3 岁的患者入组，其中大多数为男性（68.3%）。HRQoL 在 11 个独立维度进行评估。得分最高的维度是角色功能（73.47±36.93）、身体功能（72.53±26.65）和社会功能（71.63±32.3）。关于患者过去一个月因疾病导致的生活费用，最大的负担来自其他费用（152.4±179.5）、心理学家提供的服务（142.8±170.6）和医疗访问（142.8±170.6）。
由于 HIV 感染是一种慢性病，因此需要研究疾病的经济成本，因为它会影响 HIV 感染患者获得医疗护理和满足新出现需求的程度。因此，未来的研究应侧重于这些患者及其家属的生活质量与疾病的经济维度，以便制定新的卫生政策。
