Quality of life of HIV-infected women / Qualidade de vida de mulheres com infecção pelo HIV
AUTOR(ES)
Ana Eliza Rios de Araujo Mathias
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
2010
RESUMO
Introduction: The interest in assessing quality of life arises with the advances in medicine which have reduced mortality rates and increased expectancy of life. Objective: To evaluate de quality of life of HIV positive women and associated factors. Methods: A cross sectional study was carried out. Women were invited to participate in two outpatient clinics (Gynecology and Infectious Diseases) of a university hospital in the state of São Paulo - Brazil. In order to evaluate these women perception among 42 questions over nine domains which represent relevant aspects of quality of life, it was used the HIV/AIDS - Targets Quality of Life Instrument as well as a questionnaire on socio-demographic and clinic data which was elaborated for this study. Mann-Whitney s non parametric test was applied to compare the scores of the nine domains according to socio-demographic and clinical variables. Results: 176 women took part on the research; the mean age was 40, over half them declared to be non-white, and around half of them completed seventh grade of elementary school. The per capita income average was one and a half minimum salary and over half of the women had a paid work, a partner and was sexually active. Mean scores of the HAT-QOL dimensions varied from 43.4 to 92.4. The domains which presented the highest scores were: provider trust , medication concerns and overall function . The lower scores were observed for financial worries , disclosure worries and sexual functiona . Older women, those with a higher level of graduation, workers, with better income, and the ones who perceived that their global quality of life had not changed after diagnosis had better scores for health worries , and life satisfaction . The topic health worries was higher scored as antiviral therapy, and lower CD4 counts were shorter, but these clinical indicators did not modify life satisfaction . The domain disclosure worries was more relevant for the youngest, non-white skin, lower levels of schooling, those who had a partner, with a shorter time from diagnosis, under HAART and after non-sexual infection. Conclusion: The quality of life of HIV positive women was mainly more affected by social, affective-sexual characteristics as well as for their perception on how the diagnosis had impacted their quality of life than by clinical conditions. These results confirm the need for a global approach to the health of these women, which may help them to cope with a condition which can be affected by multiple cultural and psychological factors
ASSUNTO(S)
qualidade de vida questionarios virus women mulher quality of life questionnaire hiv hiv (virus)
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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