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Quality of life among HIV-tuberculosis co-infected patients

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 do...

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Autores principales: Jha, Dharmendra Kumar, Jha, Jyotsna, Jha, Anshu Kumar, Achappa, Basavaprabhu, Holla, Ramesh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6647895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404188
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/picr.PICR_99_18
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author Jha, Dharmendra Kumar
Jha, Jyotsna
Jha, Anshu Kumar
Achappa, Basavaprabhu
Holla, Ramesh
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Jha, Jyotsna
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Achappa, Basavaprabhu
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description 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: 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: 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 (P < 0.05). Internal consistency of each domain was good (α >0.7). CONCLUSION: To improve the QOL in HIV patients, it is important to identify the determinants of QOL and work toward its improvement.
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spelling pubmed-66478952019-08-09 Quality of life among HIV-tuberculosis co-infected patients Jha, Dharmendra Kumar Jha, Jyotsna Jha, Anshu Kumar Achappa, Basavaprabhu Holla, Ramesh Perspect Clin Res Original Article 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: 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: 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 (P < 0.05). Internal consistency of each domain was good (α >0.7). CONCLUSION: To improve the QOL in HIV patients, it is important to identify the determinants of QOL and work toward its improvement. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6647895/ /pubmed/31404188 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/picr.PICR_99_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Perspectives in Clinical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Holla, Ramesh
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title_short Quality of life among HIV-tuberculosis co-infected patients
title_sort quality of life among hiv-tuberculosis co-infected patients
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6647895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31404188
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/picr.PICR_99_18
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