Gender Differences in Health Related Quality of Life among People Living with HIV on Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy in Mekelle Town, Northern Ethiopia

Table 4

Independent predictors of Poor HRQOL domains among male PLHIV on HAART in public health institutions, Mekelle, Ethiopia, 2012 [ = 244].

Variables		PH; AOR (95% CI)	Psy; AOR (95% CI)	Ind; AOR (95% CI)	Soc; AOR (95% CI)	Env; AOR (95% CI)	Spir; AOR (95% CI)
Psychosocial support outside family	Yes	1
	No	2.4 (1.29, 4.46)^∗
WHO stage recent	Stage I	0.15 (0.05, 0.44)^∗	0.24 (0.09, 0.63)^∗	0.12 (0.04, 0.34)^∗∗		0.31 (0.13, 0.76)^∗
	Stage II	0. 50 (0.21, 1.18)	0.14 (0.04, 0.4)^∗	0.20 (0.08, 0.51)^∗∗		0.16 (0.06, 0.46)^∗∗
	Stage III	1.18 (0.6, 2.3)	1.1 (0.55, 2.2)	0.42 (0.21, 0.85)^∗∗		0.86 (0.44, 1.69)
	Stage IV	1	1	1		1
Educational status	Illiterate	3.26 (1.35, 7.85)^∗			3.1 (1.2, 7.9)^∗
	literate	1			1
Monthly income^✦	Below average (<83.75$)			1	1
	Average and above (≥83.75$)			0.32 (0.14, 0.77)^∗∗	0.20 (0.08, 0.46)^∗∗
Perceived stigma	Low	1	1	1			1
	High	1.88 (1.06, 3.25)^∗	2.5 (1.44, 4.44)^∗	2.90 (1.6, 5.41)^∗∗			3.58 (2.03, 6.32)^∗∗
Marital status	Married				1
	Single/widowed/; divorced/; separated				1.8 (1.04, 3.19)^∗
Time since diagnosis	<36 months				0.54 (0.30, 0.98)^∗
	≥36 months				1
Family size	≤2					1.9 (1.03, 3.69)^∗
	≥3					1
Adherence status	Yes					1	1
	No					2.5 (1.01, 6.26)^∗	2.62 (1.16, 6.25)^∗

AOR = adjusted odds ratio, CI = confidence interval, < 0.05, < 0.001, 1 = reference category, PH = physical health, Psy = psychological health, Soc = Social relationship, Env = Environment, Ind = level of independence, Spir = Spiritual health, 1 USD = 17 ETB, and ^✦the cutoff point is based on World Bank 2010 report.
The Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit test statistic is greater than 0.05 for all the models.