Factors affecting quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS attending a community care center in Chennai, India
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Materials and methods A cross sectional study of 141 adult PLHA attending the out patient department of a community care center in Chennai during the period from 1st January to 31st August 2011 were included in the study.QOL was evaluated using WHOQOL-HIV BREF questionnaire. Analysis: Mean Scores of QOL was calculated using SPSS syntax file developed by WHO, Geneva. The One way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was performed to find out significant difference between the socio-demographic variables and clinical categories on QOL domains.
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کیفیت زندگی بیماران مبتلا به HIV/AIDS مراجعه کننده به مرکز مشاوره بیماریهای رفتاری بیمارستان امام خمینی (ره) تهران
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