Factores sociodemográficos y de salud en el bienestar emocional como dominio de calidad de vida de las personas mayores en la Comunidad de Madrid: 2005

Flores, María Eugenia Prieto-Flores; Fernández-Mayoralas, Gloria; Rojo-Pérez, Fermina; Bosque, Raúl Lardiés; Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Vicente; Ahmed-Mohamed, Karim; Rojo-Abuín, José Manuel

doi:10.1590/s1135-57272008000300006

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“…Our analysis showed that patients with higher education reported better quality of life, possibly due to better knowledge about their treatment and disease, access to health services or functional status 36,37. This result is similar to those from other studies among HIV/AIDS patients37 as well as among different populations, including a sample of men with prostate cancer38 and the general population in Sweden 39.…”

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Quality of Life Among HIV-Infected Patients in Brazil after Initiation of Treatment

Campos

César

Guimarães

2009

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INTRODUCTIONDespite improvement in clinical treatment for HIV-infected patients, the impact of antiretroviral therapy on the overall quality of life has become a major concern.OBJECTIVETo identify factors associated with increased levels of self-reported quality of life among HIV-infected patients after four months of antiretroviral therapy.METHODSPatients were recruited at two public health referral centers for AIDS, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, for a prospective adherence study. Patients were interviewed before initiating treatment (baseline) and after one and four months. Quality of life was assessed using a psychometric instrument, and factors associated with good/very good quality of life four months after the initiation of antiretroviral therapy were assessed using a cross-sectional approach. Logistic regression was used for analysis.RESULTSOverall quality of life was classified as ‘very good/good’ by 66.4% of the participants four months after initiating treatment, while 33.6% classified it as ‘neither poor nor good/poor/very poor’. Logistic regression indicated that >8 years of education, none/mild symptoms of anxiety and depression, no antiretroviral switch, lower number of adverse reactions and better quality of life at baseline were independently associated with good/very good quality of life over four months of treatment.CONCLUSIONSOur results highlight the importance of modifiable factors such as psychiatric symptoms and treatment-related variables that may contribute to a better quality of life among patients initiating treatment. Considering that poor quality of life is related to non-adherence to antiretroviral therapy, careful clinical monitoring of these factors may contribute to ensuring the long-term effectiveness of antiretroviral regimens.

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Quality of Life Among HIV-Infected Patients in Brazil after Initiation of Treatment

Campos

César

Guimarães

2009

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“…In fact more than half of the community-dwelling population did not benefit from personal help. For the age groups, the DIF could be explained by the use of a cut-off of 65 years, which was available in both populations and was in line with others studies that showed that SRGH is worse after an age of 65 years in the Spanish population [33]. …”

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Biological health or lived health: which predicts self-reported general health better?

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BackgroundLived health is a person’s level of functioning in his or her current environment and depends both on the person’s environment and biological health. Our study addresses the question whether biological health or lived health is more predictive of self-reported general health (SRGH).MethodsThis is a psychometric study using cross-sectional data from the Spanish Survey on Disability, Independence and Dependency Situation. Data was collected from 17,739 people in the community and 9,707 from an institutionalized population. The following analysis steps were performed: (1) a biological health and a lived health score were calculated for each person by constructing a biological health scale and a lived health scale using Samejima’s Graded Response Model; and (2) variable importance measures were calculated for each study population using Random Forest, with SRGH as the dependent variable and the biological health and the lived health scores as independent variables.ResultsThe levels of biological health were higher for the community-dwelling population than for the institutionalized population. When technical assistance, personal assistance or both were received, the difference in lived health between the community-dwelling population and institutionalized population was smaller. According to Random Forest’s variable importance measures, for both study populations, lived health is a more important predictor of SRGH than biological health.ConclusionsIn general, people base their evaluation of their own health on their lived health experience rather than their experience of biological health. This study also sheds light on the challenges of assessing biological health and lived health at the general population level.

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“…Reports have shown that patients with higher education reported better QOL, possibly due to better knowledge about their treatment and disease, access to health services, or functional status 38,39. In this author’s opinion, this suggests that ART works in combination with such other factors as education and socioeconomic status to effect the desired improvement in the QOL of people living with HIV and AIDS.…”

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Quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS and antiretroviral therapy

Oguntibeju¹

2012

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The development of antiretroviral drugs has significantly changed the perception of HIV/AIDS from a very fatal to a chronic and potentially manageable disease, and the availability and administration of antiretroviral therapy (ART) has significantly reduced mortality and morbidity associated with HIV and AIDS. There is a relationship between ART and quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS, and several studies have reported a strong positive association between ART and improved quality of life in different domains among people living with HIV and AIDS in both developed and developing countries. However, a few studies have reported on the negative effects of ART, which directly or indirectly relate to the quality of life and longevity of HIV-infected persons. In this review, the effects and benefits of ART on people living with HIV and AIDS based on studies done in developed and developing countries is examined.

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Factores sociodemográficos y de salud en el bienestar emocional como dominio de calidad de vida de las personas mayores en la Comunidad de Madrid: 2005

Abstract: Health greatly influences emotional wellbeing with a relevant role of the subjective experience of health, together with social class as an indicator of educational level and socioeconomic status.

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Quality of Life Among HIV-Infected Patients in Brazil after Initiation of Treatment

Quality of Life Among HIV-Infected Patients in Brazil after Initiation of Treatment

Biological health or lived health: which predicts self-reported general health better?

Quality of life of people living with HIV and AIDS and antiretroviral therapy

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