Poster Presentation
Thursday, 20 July 2006
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Thursday, 20 July 2006
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
This presentation is part of : Poster Presentations II
Evaluation of Quality of Life Among Women Living with HIV/AIDS in São Paulo City, Brazil Using the WHOQOL-100
Lucia Yasuko Izumi Nichiata, PhD1, Karine Azevedo São Leão Ferreira, RN2, Luciana de Oliveira Marques, RN1, Miako Kimura, PhD2, Renata Ferreira Takahashi, PhD1, and Anna Luiza de F. P. L. Gryschek, PhD1. (1) Collective Health Nursing Departament, University of São Paulo/ School of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil, (2) Department of Medical Surgical Nursing, University of São Paulo/ School of Nursing, São Paulo, Brazil
Learning Objective #1: describe quality of life of women living with HIV/AIDS in São Paulo city/Brazil using the WHOQUOL-100
Learning Objective #2: determine associations among quality of life and social demographic and clinical aspects of the women living with HIV/AIDS using the WHOQUOL-100
This paper is part of the Research “The quality of life (QOL) of patients living with HIV/AIDS” developed in São Paulo city– Brazil from 2002 to 2005. Aims: to determine associations among quality of life and social demographic and clinical aspects of the women living with HIV/AIDS. Methods: the study sample consisted of 344 women attending in six HIV/AIDS health facilities located in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The WHOQOL-100 (a-Cronbach=0.8) was used to assessing QOL. The WHOQOL-100 is a generic profile containing 100 questions in 25 facets of QOL, organized in 6 domains (physical, psychological, levels of independence, social relationships, environment and spirituality), domains and facets scores range between 4 and 20, being 20 the best score. Other data collected included basic demographic information (age, gender, education level, etc), medical history (time from diagnosis, disease stage, opportunistics infections, symptoms and treatment) and immunological/virological status (CD4 count, plasma viral load). Results: The mean age was 37.1 years; 64.3% had 1 to 8 years of formal education; 45.8% were catholics; 33.0% of the women were unemployed and 17.9% were housewives and the mean duration of the HIV diagnoses was 51.8 months, 72.7% had AIDS and 45.3% referred themselves health as good or nor good neither bad (28.2%). QOL was significantly (p<0.05) better for spirituality domain (mean=16.16) than the others. There was correlation among the physical domain and co-morbidities (r=-0.117, p<0.05) and time of disease (r=-0.18, p<0.05); level of independency domain and co-morbidities (r=-0.109, p<0.05) and time of AIDS (r=-0.21, p<0.01); among the level of independency domain and environment and rent-percapita (r=0.24, p<0.01 and r=0.14, p<0.05, in this order). Conclusions: there was no correlation among the situation of work and the six domains. The domain level of independency showed the major frequency of correlations with social demographic and clinical aspects

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