Vol. 5 (10) pp. 1608-1614 DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5677

FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS RECEIVING ANTI-RETROVIRAL THERAPY: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY.

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  • Lecturer, The Sarvajanik College of Physiotherapy, Surat.
  • Additional Director, medical education, and research, Gandhinagar, Medical Superintendent Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, HOD, Orthopaedic Department, Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad.
  • Deputy Director, GSACS, Department of Health and Family welfare, Govt. of Gujarat.
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Background: Human immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) is a fatal illness which leaves the victim vulnerable and builds a vacuum in a person affecting his/her life as a whole. Quality of life (QOL) is an important component in the evaluation of the well-being of people living with HIV and AIDS (PLWHA) as it affects an individual physically, socially, emotionally, mentally and financially. Objectives: This study was undertaken to assess the impact of socio-demographic and clinical factors on QOL in PLWHA. Methodology: A cross-sectional study was performed on 110 individuals came to Community care and Support Centre (CSC), Surat from June 2016 to March 2017. Purposive sampling technique was used for selection of participants. QOL life was assessed with the FAHI (Functional Assessment of HIV Infection) instrument. The socio-demographic factors were also obtained in a pre-designed proforma. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson?s correlation and One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests. Results: The results showed that there were 66% males and 40% were females. The mean age of the participants was 41.27?8.44 years. The mean FAHI score was 132.97?20.23. If the mean domain scores were taken as the percentage of the highest score for their respective domain, the subjects scored most poorly in the emotional domain (66%) than the social domain (76%) which closely followed by functional and global domain (77%). The participants seemed to be the best in the physical well-being (PWB) domain of FAHI. There was no significant difference in FAHI score between duration of illness, duration of taking ART (Antiretroviral therapy) and CD4 count. Conclusion: It was found that social well-being (SWB), functional and global well-being (FGWB) and cognitive functioning (CF) were controlled by the demographical or clinical variable such as living arrangement, marital status, and duration of taking ART. Even though PLHAs had better scores in physical and cognitive functioning domains they face difficulties in their emotional aspects.

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Rajiv D. Limbasiya, M. M. Prabhakar and Rajendra Gadhavi. (2017); FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV/AIDS RECEIVING ANTI-RETROVIRAL THERAPY: A CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY., International Journal of Advanced Research (IJAR), 5 (10), 1608-1614, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI: https://doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5677

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Rajiv D. Limbasiya
The Sarvajanik College of Physiotherapy

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