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Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender
The aim of the study was to explore gender differences in the level of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and coping strategies among people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLWH). In particular, the moderating role of participants’ gender on the relationship between coping st...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5940709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29256068 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-017-0801-2 |
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description | The aim of the study was to explore gender differences in the level of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and coping strategies among people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLWH). In particular, the moderating role of participants’ gender on the relationship between coping strategies and HRQoL was explored, while controlling for socio-medical data. A total of 444 HIV-infected men and 86 HIV-infected women were recruited to participate in the study. This was a cross-sectional study with the HRQoL assessed by the World Health Organization (WHO) Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) and the coping strategies measured by the Brief COPE inventory. Although the HIV-infected men and HIV-infected women differed in terms of some HRQoL domains, these differences disappeared in the regression analysis after controlling for socio-demographic data (employment and higher education). In addition, several statistically significant interactions between participants’ gender and coping strategies in relation to HRQoL domains were observed. Future research on gender differences in HRQoL among PLWH should take into account unique differences between HIV-infected men and HIV-infected women across, not only in respect to socio-medical factors but also regarding psychosocial variables. |
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spelling | pubmed-59407092018-05-14 Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender Rzeszutek, Marcin Arch Womens Ment Health Original Article The aim of the study was to explore gender differences in the level of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and coping strategies among people living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) (PLWH). In particular, the moderating role of participants’ gender on the relationship between coping strategies and HRQoL was explored, while controlling for socio-medical data. A total of 444 HIV-infected men and 86 HIV-infected women were recruited to participate in the study. This was a cross-sectional study with the HRQoL assessed by the World Health Organization (WHO) Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) and the coping strategies measured by the Brief COPE inventory. Although the HIV-infected men and HIV-infected women differed in terms of some HRQoL domains, these differences disappeared in the regression analysis after controlling for socio-demographic data (employment and higher education). In addition, several statistically significant interactions between participants’ gender and coping strategies in relation to HRQoL domains were observed. Future research on gender differences in HRQoL among PLWH should take into account unique differences between HIV-infected men and HIV-infected women across, not only in respect to socio-medical factors but also regarding psychosocial variables. Springer Vienna 2017-12-18 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5940709/ /pubmed/29256068 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-017-0801-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. |
spellingShingle | Original Article Rzeszutek, Marcin Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender |
title | Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender |
title_full | Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender |
title_fullStr | Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender |
title_full_unstemmed | Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender |
title_short | Health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with HIV: the moderating role of gender |
title_sort | health-related quality of life and coping strategies among people living with hiv: the moderating role of gender |
topic | Original Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5940709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29256068 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00737-017-0801-2 |
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