Quality of Life among Persons with HIV/AIDS in Iran: Internal Reliability and Validity of an International Instrument and Associated Factors

Table 4

Domains’ mean scores, compared between younger and older, employed and unemployed, and treated and naïve patients.

		Domain I	Domain II	Domain III	Domain IV	Domain V	Domain VI
Age	≥35	10.9±2.1	11.9±2.2	11.7±2.7	10.7±2.8^†	10.2±2.2	12.1±3.1 *
	<35	11.1±2.3	12.3±2.3	12.2±2.1	11.6±2.1^†	10.8±1.8	13.3±3.3 *
Employment	Employed	11.3±1.9	12.2±2.3	12.4±2.3^♦	11.4±2.6	11.1±2.1^‡	12.8±3.1
	Unemployed	10.7±2.6	11.9±2.2	11.3±2.6^♦	10.9±2.3	10.1±1.9^‡	12.5±3.3
HAART	Treated	11.2±2.4	12.1±2.4	11.5±2.3	11.3±2.5	10.8±2.2	12.5±3.1
	Naive	11.1±2.3	11.9±2.2	12.1±2.7	11.1±2.5	10.5±2.1	12.6±3.3

^†𝑃=0.021, *𝑃=0.024, ^♦𝑃=0.004, ^‡𝑃=0.001; rest of observed differences are not significant (𝑃>0.05).