Quality of life among HIV-tuberculosis co-infected patients.

Beck's Depression Inventory Scale World Health Organization quality of life-human deficiency virus BREF human deficiency virus quality of life

Journal

Perspectives in clinical research
ISSN: 2229-3485
Titre abrégé: Perspect Clin Res
Pays: India
ID NLM: 101551517

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Historique:
entrez: 13 8 2019
pubmed: 14 8 2019
medline: 14 8 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

India is the world's third leading country in terms of people living with human deficiency virus (HIV) (2.1 million) with 0.4 million deaths due to HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB). Physical and mental stress degrades the quality of life (QOL) in these patients. Studies have been done in HIV patients but very few on HIV-TB co-infected patients. Our study aims at assessing and comparing the QOL in HIV patients with and without TB. It was a cross-sectional study done at Antiretroviral Treatment Center of KMC, Mangalore and District Wenlock Hospital, Mangalore, over 6 months. A sample size was 104. Semi-structured questionnaire to collect clinico-demographic data, World Health Organization QOL (WHOQOL)-HIV BREF to assess the QoL, and Beck's Depression Inventory Scale (Physical health, psychological well-being, social relationship, environmental health, level of independence, and spiritual health) to identify depression were used. The Cronbach's alpha was used to measure the internal consistency for each domain of the WHOQOL-HIV instrument. HIV-TB co-infected patients had a lower mean score in all domains as compare to only HIV patients, suggesting that HIV-TB co-infected patients had a poor QOL ( To improve the QOL in HIV patients, it is important to identify the determinants of QOL and work toward its improvement.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND BACKGROUND
India is the world's third leading country in terms of people living with human deficiency virus (HIV) (2.1 million) with 0.4 million deaths due to HIV-associated tuberculosis (TB). Physical and mental stress degrades the quality of life (QOL) in these patients. Studies have been done in HIV patients but very few on HIV-TB co-infected patients. Our study aims at assessing and comparing the QOL in HIV patients with and without TB.
MATERIALS AND METHODS METHODS
It was a cross-sectional study done at Antiretroviral Treatment Center of KMC, Mangalore and District Wenlock Hospital, Mangalore, over 6 months. A sample size was 104. Semi-structured questionnaire to collect clinico-demographic data, World Health Organization QOL (WHOQOL)-HIV BREF to assess the QoL, and Beck's Depression Inventory Scale (Physical health, psychological well-being, social relationship, environmental health, level of independence, and spiritual health) to identify depression were used. The Cronbach's alpha was used to measure the internal consistency for each domain of the WHOQOL-HIV instrument.
RESULTS RESULTS
HIV-TB co-infected patients had a lower mean score in all domains as compare to only HIV patients, suggesting that HIV-TB co-infected patients had a poor QOL (
CONCLUSION CONCLUSIONS
To improve the QOL in HIV patients, it is important to identify the determinants of QOL and work toward its improvement.

Identifiants

pubmed: 31404188
doi: 10.4103/picr.PICR_99_18
pii: PCR-10-125
pmc: PMC6647895
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

125-129

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

There are no conflicts of interest.

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Auteurs

Dharmendra Kumar Jha (DK)

Department of Medicine, Patliputra Medical College and Hospital, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India.

Jyotsna Jha (J)

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Medical College, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

Anshu Kumar Jha (AK)

Department of Medicine, Assam Medical College, Dibrugarh, Assam, India.

Basavaprabhu Achappa (B)

Department of Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

Ramesh Holla (R)

Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, Karnataka, India.

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