Quality of Life and It's Correlates in HIV-Infected Patients

Friday, 20 July 2018

Shujen Chen, MSN
Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, New Taipei City, Taiwan

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the symptoms of AIDS-infected patients, the uncertainty of illness, depression, hope and quality of life, and their relevance. The specific aims are as follows:
First, to understand AIDS patients infected with symptoms, disease uncertainty, depression, hope and life Quality situation.
Second, to explore the basic characteristics of demographic infection in AIDS patients, symptoms plagued, illness uncertainty, depression, hope, depression, hope and quality of life between the correlation.
Third, understand the impact of AIDS infection in patients with quality of life an important predictor.

Methods: This study adopts a cross-sectional and narrative study design (Cross-sectional and Descriptive Correlational Design). Data questionnaires, one-on-one interviews, structured questionnaires, data collection, purposive sampling, data collection.The questionnaire collected data encoded and entered into the computer to SPSS 16.0 for Windows package software for statistical analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the basic attributes of the subjects, the physical symptoms, the uncertainty of the disease, the mean and standard deviation of the depression, hope and quality of life, and then to explore whether there is any correlation between the variables and statistics On the significant difference.

Results: The results of this study found that the symptoms of AIDS patients suffering from the most symptoms were "tired" (65.1%), "weakness" (47.1%) and "itchy skin" (46.8%), respectively. Among them, the top three highest-ranked scores were ranked as "exhausted" (0.85 ± 0.75), "insomnia" (0.70 ± 0.91), and "soft stool" (0.63 ± 0.83), respectively. Symptoms of the most disturbing women with symptoms of the ethnic group were plagued by irregular menstruation (58.3%) and cramps (25%). The average score was 2.33 ± 2.71, with the highest score of "irregular menstruation" (1.25 ± 1.36).
278 subjects, the study found that AIDS patients with low to moderate disease uncertainty generated. 43.9% have melancholy tendency. Hope that the total score average 34.93 ± 6.49, is moderate.
The total score of the quality of life list averaged 82.38 ± 13.08 with an average score of 3.43, indicating that the quality of life of AIDS patients was "moderately good."

Conclusion: In the demographic component of AIDS, only the economic status is statistically significant;
In the symptom-distress scale section, every 1-point increase in the total score of the symptom distress scale,
Scores of scores will be reduced 0.15 points, in the part of the scale of uncertainty of the disease, the disease is not accurate
For every 1 point increase in the total rating scale, the Quality of Life Scale score will decrease by 0.12 points,
In the depression scale section, every 1 point increase in the depression scale total score, the quality of life table score
Will reduce 0.48 points in the hope that part of the scale, hope that the total score for each additional 1 point, students
The live weight scale score increased by 0.43 points, with statistically significant significance (p <0.01).
Demographic characteristics of AIDS-infected patients, symptoms, uncertainty of illness, depression and hope
Sense can significantly affect the quality of life.
Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to explore the correlation between various aspects of the correlation among AIDS-infected persons with symptoms, disease uncertainty, depression, hope and quality of life. The results showed that there was no significant difference (P <0.01), and the distribution of the correlation coefficients between subsurfaces and total surface structures mostly ranged from 0.3 to 0.9, which were all moderately related. Symptom disturbance scale and quality of life tables, disease uncertainty scale, depression scale and hope scale between the correlation coefficient greater than 0.6, are highly relevant. In other words, when the symptoms of the body become more and more serious, the more uncertain and melancholy the disease will occur. Conversely, the less physical symptoms, the better the sense of hope and the better quality of life.