The availability of effective antiretroviral therapy has altered HIV from being an acute
disease to being a chronic, manageable condition for many people living with HIV (PLWH) …

Routine clinical assessment of health-related quality of life in persons with HIV infection has
the potential to improve care by assessing and monitoring treatment effects, enhancing …

Background Not much is known about the risk factors of major depressive disorder (MDD) in
HIV/AIDS in the African socio-cultural context. Therefore a study was undertaken to examine …

Cognitive representations of illness determine behavior. How persons living with AIDS
image their disease might be key to understanding medication adherence and other health …

Objectives: This study aims to analyse how a wide group of clinical, social, demographic and
psychological factors are related to both physical and mental quality of life in HIV+ patients …

Objectives Health‐related quality of life (HRQL) is used in the assessment of chronic illness.
Regarding HIV infection, HRQL assessment is an objective for physicians and institutions …

Stability in perceived social support and associations between social support and health-
related quality of life for a sample of 41 adult outpatients living with HIV/AIDS (PHA) in …

Abstract Background Though HIV/AIDS has multidimensional consequences on quality of
life, there is a gap in measuring and monitoring health related quality of life of HIV/AIDS …

The objective of this study was to assess in patients with HIV perceptions of life pre-HIV
versus post-HIV diagnosis and examine whether such perceptions change over time. We …

Background Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. HIV/AIDS continues
to be associated with an under-recognized risk for suicidal behavior. Suicidal behavior …