Factors that influence the quality of life of people infected with HIV, Samchuk District, Suphanburi Province.

Abstract

Purpose: To study the quality of life of those infected with HIV in each area and overall. The relationship between personal factors and quality of life of those infected with HIVas a whole. Selected factors or predictors include personal factors. Social support conditions spiritual well-being Strategies to adapt to problems or a crisis of people infected with HIV. Which may affect the quality of life of those infected with HIV. Cross - sectional descriptive study by interview. The study population is a person infected with HIV who receives antiretroviral drugs at antiHIV clinic, Samchuk hospital during July – August 2015. Data analysis by mean, percentage, frequency and standard deviation, analysed by Pearson correlation coefficient and Multiple regression analysis.

Results: 137 samples showed the majority of social support (67.1 %) at the low level. High level of spiritual well-being (67.9%) in the field of strategy to adapt to the problem or crisis, 62.8% was moderate level. Overall quality of life found that had quality of life in moderate level while 4 dimensions: psychological, social relationships, physical health and environmental were poor quality of life 51.8, 37.9, 22.6 and 10.2 % respectively.

Four personal factors include age, occupation, people live with and how long it has been diagnosed as infected with HIV is associated with the quality of life of people infected with HIV in over all these had statistically significant at level of 0.05. Another 6 factors: gender, marital status, level of education, place of residence, monthly income and telling family members about the infection itself, these were associated with the quality of life of people infected with HIV but no statistically difference. Social support, health, spiritual well-being and strategies to adapt to a problem or a crisis of people infected with HIV. There is a positive correlation between the quality of life of those infected with HIV is moderately high (r = 0.489, p <0.01), moderate (r = 0.364, p <0.01) moderately high (r = 0.408, p <0.01) respectively. By Multiple Regression Analysis, 13 independent variables could explained the variation of the overall quality of life of those infected with HIV but no statistically difference relatively high (48.9%). Social support, strategies to adapt to a problem or crisis, spiritual well-being and telling family members about the infection itself were 4 positive move variables that had statistically significant.