IMPACT OF QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG HIV POSITIVE PATIENTS

IMPACT OF QUALITY OF LIFE AMONG HIV POSITIVE PATIENTS

The study highlights the independent and interaction effects of ‘group’ (HIV positive patients and control group) and ‘gender’ (male and female) on quality of life. The study was conducted on a purposively drawn sample of 25 to 50 years old medically diagnosed 100 HIV positive patients (50 males and 50 females) selected from community care centers of Nariya Varanasi and NGO’s without history of any psychiatric illness and 100 control normal counterparts (50 males and 50 females) without any severe disease in pat two years with at least High School education qualification . The participants were administered standardizedHindi version of WHO Quality of Life (WHOQOL- BREF Hindi) (Saxsena, 1996). The data were analyzed by 2 X 2 ANOVA (2 groups X 2 gender). ANOVA revealed significant main effect of ‘groups’ and non-significant of ‘gender’. Significant main effect of ‘groups’ demonstrated that HIV group perceived lower level of quality of life in comparison to the control group.