Compare the Quality of Life (QOL) of male and female patients affected with HIV/AIDS receiving Antiretroviral Therapy from selected non governmental organization

The study was carried out to 1) to assess the quality of life among male and female patients with HIV/AIDS who are on ART. 2) To compare the level of quality of life between male and female patients with HIV/AIDS who are on ART. 3) To find out the relationship between different domains of QOL among male subjects with HIV/AIDS on ART. 4) To find out the relationship between different domains of QOL among female subjects with HIV/AIDS on ART. 5) To find out the association between the quality of life of male and female patients affected with HIV/AIDS on ART with their selected demographic variables (age, education, occupation, income, marital status, locality, duration of illness, and duration of receiving ART and Co-morbid conditions). The descriptive comparative study was conducted by using Convenience sampling technique among 60 samples with HIV/AIDS on ART in which 30 were female and remaining 30 were male samples. The tool for the data collection was WHO QOL-HIV BRIEF SCALE. The main outcome measured in this study was QOL and some related demographic and clinical variables. In males (0%) none of them had very good QOL, poor QOL and very poor QOL. In males 28 (93.3%) of subjects were having good quality of life and 2 (6.7%) of subjects were having moderate QOL. Whereas in females (0%) none of them had very good QOL, poor QOL and very poor QOL. In females 9 (30%) of subjects having good QOL and 21 (70%) of subjects were having moderate QOL. male HIV patients the mean QOL score is 102 and the female HIV patients the mean QOL score is 92, which is lower than the male HIV patients the mean QOL score. The standard deviation of male HIV patients is 6.17 and the standard deviation female HIV patient is 6.07. The unpaired ‘t’ value is 6.34 is statistically significant at 0.05 level. There was a significant association between the QOL score and gender. There was a significant association between the QOL of male patients affected with HIV /AIDS on ART only with their duration of illness. There was no significant association between the quality of life of female patients affected with HIV/AIDS on ART with their selected demographic variables and clinical profiles. Men had higher QOL score than women. Men had good QOL score whereas women had only moderate QOL score. Men reported Good QOL in the physical domain and environmental domain while women had good QOL in the psychological and spiritual domain. All the seven domains correlated significantly with the overall QOL for male and female patients with HIV/AIDS on ART