Factors related to quality of life of people living with HIV in Alicante, Spain

Autor: Yina Lizeth, García-López, Mari Carmen, Bernal-Soriano, Diego, Torrús-Tendero, José Antonio, Delgado de Los Reyes, Ramón, Castejón-Bolea
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Enfermedades infecciosas y microbiologia clinica (English ed.). 39:127-133
ISSN: 2529-993X
DOI: 10.1016/j.eimce.2020.03.006
Popis: To analyze the determinants that influence the health-related quality of life of people living with HIV in Alicante (Spain).A cross-sectional study was conducted, which recruited 214 Spanish-speaking participants over 18 years of age living with HIV from an outpatient consulting office of the infectious diseases in a hospital in Alicante between 2013 and 2014. A self-administration sociodemographic survey and the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36v2) was used to assess health-related quality of life. This questionnaire measures health on 8domains.70% of the participants were male, 50% had CD4 cell count between 200-499 cells/mmThe socioeconomic level and the presence of clinical factors such as HCV influence the scales of quality of life of physical health among adults living with HIV.
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