Housing characteristics and their influence on health-related quality of life in persons living with HIV in Ontario, Canada: results from the positive spaces, healthy places study.

Autor: Rourke SB; The Ontario HIV Treatment Network, 600-1300 Yonge St, Toronto, ON, M4T 1X3, Canada. sean.rourke@utoronto.ca, Bekele T, Tucker R, Greene S, Sobota M, Koornstra J, Monette L, Bacon J, Bhuiyan S, Rueda S, Watson J, Hwang SW, Dunn J, Hambly K
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: AIDS and behavior [AIDS Behav] 2012 Nov; Vol. 16 (8), pp. 2361-73.
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-012-0284-0
Abstrakt: Although lack of housing is linked with adverse health outcomes, little is known about the impacts of the qualitative aspects of housing on health. This study examined the association between structural elements of housing, housing affordability, housing satisfaction and health-related quality of life over a 1-year period. Participants were 509 individuals living with HIV in Ontario, Canada. Regression analyses were conducted to examine relationships between housing variables and physical and mental health-related quality of life. We found significant cross-sectional associations between housing and neighborhood variables-including place of residence, housing affordability, housing stability, and satisfaction with material, meaningful and spatial dimensions of housing-and both physical and mental health-related quality of life. Our analyses also revealed longitudinal associations between housing and neighborhood variables and health-related quality of life. Interventions that enhance housing affordability and housing satisfaction may help improve health-related quality of life of people living with HIV.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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