Role of psychosocial status in predicting health-related quality of life at 1-year follow-up among newly diagnosed people living with HIV.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Psychosocial problems are common among people living with HIV (PLWH) and have been cross-sectionally associated with health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We evaluated the longitudinal relationship between psychosocial status and HRQoL among PLWH during the first year after diagnosis. METHOD:A consecutive sample of newly diagnosed PLWH was recruited from Changsha Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Hunan Province, China. Assessments were conducted at baseline and 1 year later. The measures used in this study included the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Survey (MOS-HIV), the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the HIV/AIDS Stress Scale (SS-HIV) and the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). The trajectories of depression from baseline to 1-year follow-up were categori

SUBMITTER: Huang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6808448 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature