Role of psychosocial status in predicting health-related quality of life at 1-year follow-up among newly diagnosed people living with HIV

Yunxiang Huang, Dan Luo, Xi Chen, Dexing Zhang, Zhulin Huang and Shuiyuan Xiao

PLOS ONE, 2019, vol. 14, issue 10, 1-14

Abstract: Background: Psychosocial problems are common among people living with HIV (PLWH) and have been cross-sectionally associated with health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We evaluated the longitudinal relationship between psychosocial status and HRQoL among PLWH during the first year after diagnosis. Method: A consecutive sample of newly diagnosed PLWH was recruited from Changsha Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Hunan Province, China. Assessments were conducted at baseline and 1 year later. The measures used in this study included the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Survey (MOS-HIV), the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9), the HIV/AIDS Stress Scale (SS-HIV) and the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS). The trajectories of depression from baseline to 1-year follow-up were categorized into four groups: never (PHQ-9

Date: 2019
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