Associação entre dimensões do suporte familiar e qualidade de vida de pessoas vivendo com HIV

Family support is related to better quality-of-life parameters. However, the way in which the different facets of family supportaffect the dimensions of quality-of-life is not well established. Thus, the objective of the present study was to verify theassociation between family support and the quality-of-life of people living with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV),as well as to analyze the associations between the domains of each construct. The study had a cross-sectional design andwas conducted with 296 people living with HIV from an HIV/AIDS referral clinic. The association between the quality-of-lifedomains and the perception of family support was verified by Binary Logistic Regression. The magnitude of the associationswas presented using the odds ratio (95% confidence interval). People living with HIV who had a lower perception of familysupport showed a greater chance of having reduced quality-of-life, with the chances increasing from 2.10 (1.11; 3.97) to 6.20(3.17; 12.12) times. The findings were consistent when analyzing the associations between dimensions, with the exceptiononly of the association between family autonomy and the environmental dimension of the quality-of-life, as well as theassociation between the affectionate-consistent domain and the spirituality domain of quality-of-life. Therefore, the specificityof the associations between quality-of-life and family support must be considered in the care of people living with HIV, assome aspects of quality-of-life seem to benefit from specific aspects of family support.