Research Article
Quality of Life of People Living with HIV/AIDS in the Ho Municipality, Ghana: A Cross-Sectional Study
Table 5
Associated variable with the component of quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Ho municipality.
| | QoL Domain | Parameter | Excellent | Good | Poor | value |
| | Psychological quality of life | | | | | | | Gender | Male | 5 (11.90) | 27 (64.29) | 10 (23.81) | 0.0303 | | Female | 28 (24.14) | 77 (66.38) | 11 (9.48) | | Sexual activity | Active | 18 (23.38) | 54 (70.13) | 5 (6.49) | 0.0476 | | Non Active | 15 (18.52) | 50 (61.73) | 16 (19.75) | | Facility | Regional | 11 (12.50) | 63 (71.59) | 14 (15.91) | 0.0128 | | Municipal | 22 (31.43) | 41 (58.57) | 7 (10.00) | | Spiritual/religion/personal beliefs | | | | | | | Disease state | Symptomatic | 21 (65.63) | 8 (25.00) | 3 (9.38) | 0.0027 | | Asymptomatic | 41 (32.54) | 57 (45.24) | 28 (22.22) | | Therapy | ART | 44 (43.56) | 43 (42.57) | 14 (13.86) | 0.0449 | | Naive | 18 (31.58) | 22 (38.60) | 17 (29.82) | | General health perceptions | | | | | | | Disease state | Symptomatic | 20 (62.50) | 2 (6.25) | 10 (31.25) | 0.0178 | | Asymptomatic | 103 (81.75) | 9 (7.14) | 14 (11.11) | | Facility | Regional | 65 (73.86) | 4 (4.55) | 19 (21.59) | 0.0244 | | Municipal | 58 (82.86) | 7 (10.00) | 5 (7.14) | | Physical quality of life | | | | | | | Disease state | Symptomatic | 5 (15.63) | 20 (62.50) | 7 (21.88) | 0.0312 | | Asymptomatic | 51 (40.48) | 57 (45.24) | 18 (14.29) |
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Data is presented as frequency with corresponding percentage in parenthesis. is significant at 0.05.
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