Qualidade de vida de mulheres portadoras do HIV

Objective Analyze the quality of life of HIV seropositive women. Methods Cross-sectional study including 40 women selected through non-probabilistic sampling. The questionnaire WHOQOL-HIV bref was the research instrument employed, considering the six domains of the instrument and socio-demographic and clinical aspects. Data analysis was performed using the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test to analyze the normality of sampling average distributions, and the Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests to analyze the difference between averages or medians of the scores for quality of life. The Spearman coefficient was used for potential correlations. Results According to the questionnaire, the Spirituality domain (average=59.5) reported the highest score, while the Environment domain (average=52.1) scored lowest. The average age was 41 years old; 97.5% declared themselves to be heterosexual; and 80.0% used antiretroviral treatment. Conclusion Spirituality was the best-performing domain, followed by the Physical domain. The lowest average scores were observed for the Environment and Social Relations domains.