Research Article
Quality of Life of People Living with HIV/AIDS in the Ho Municipality, Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 4
Variables associated with the overall Quality of Life of People Living with HIV and AIDS in the Ho municipality.
| | Parameter | Excellent | Good | Poor | value |
| | Facility | | | | | | Regional Hospital | 68 (77.27) | 7 (7.96) | 13 (14.77) | 0.3121 | | Municipal Hospital | 58 (82.86) | 7 (10.00) | 5 (7.14) | | Gender | | | | | | Male | 31 (73.81) | 5 (11.90) | 6 (14.29) | 0.5295 | | Female | 95 (81.90) | 9 (7.76) | 12 (10.34) | | Educational Background | | | | | | None | 9 (64.29) | 4 (28.57) | 1 (7.14) | 0.2201 | | Basic | 84 (80.77) | 8 (7.69) | 12 (11.54) | | Secondary | 24 (80.00) | 2 (6.67) | 4 (13.33) | | Tertiary | 9 (90.00) | 0 (0.00) | 1 (10.00) | | Marital status | | | | | | Single | 69 (81.18) | 7 (8.23) | 9 (10.59) | 0.9547 | | Cohabitation | 8 (72.73) | 1 (9.09) | 2 (18.18) | | Married | 49 (79.03) | 6 (9.68) | 7 (11.29) | | Occupational status | | | | | | Formal | 13 (81.25) | 1 (6.25) | 2 (12.50) | 0.0017 | | Informal | 104 (83.20) | 12 (9.60) | 9 (7.20) | | Not employed | 9 (52.94) | 1 (5.88) | 7 (41.18) | | Antiretroviral Therapy | | | | | | ART | 82 (81.19) | 10 (9.90) | 9 (8.91) | 0.3813 | | ART Naive | 44 (77.19) | 4 (7.02) | 9 (15.79) | | Perception of Health | | | | | | Ill health | 62 (70.45) | 8 (9.09) | 18 (20.45) | 0.0003 | | Healthy | 64 (91.43) | 6 (8.57) | 0 (0.00) | | Sexual activity | | | | | | Active | 66 (85.71) | 8 (10.39) | 3 (3.90) | 0.0144 | | Nonactive | 60 (74.07) | 6 (7.41) | 15 (18.52) | | Disease state | | | | | | Symptomatic | 22 (68.75) | 2 (6.25) | 8 (25.00) | 0.0242 | | Asymptomatic | 104 (82.54) | 12 (9.52) | 10 (7.94) |
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Data is presented as frequency with corresponding percentage in parenthesis. is significant at 0.005.
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