ArticleMedical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making2014
Health-Related Quality of Life in HIV-Infected and At-Risk Women: The Impact of Illicit Drug Use and Hepatitis C on a Community Preference Weighted Measure.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Health-Related Quality of Life in People with Advanced HIV Disease, from 1996 to 2021: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.AIDS and behavior · 2024Pooled it
- Longitudinal and cross sectional assessments of health utility in adults with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC health services research · 2015Pooled it
- Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life in People Living with HIV Who Present to Care with AIDS or Severe Immunodeficiency: The CoRIS AIDS Survivors Study.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
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- Consensus statement on the role of health systems in advancing the long-term well-being of people living with HIV.Nature communications · 2021Review
- Impact of Advanced HIV Disease on Quality of Life and Mortality in the Era of Combined Antiretroviral Treatment.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Health Disparities and the Digital Divide: The Relationship between Communication Inequalities and Quality of Life among Women in a Nationwide Prospective Cohort Study in the United States.Journal of health communication · 2019Article
- Measuring benefits of opioid misuse treatment for economic evaluation: health-related quality of life of opioid-dependent individuals and their spouses as assessed by a sample of the US population.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2016Article
- Impact of Illicit Drug Use on Health-Related Quality of Life in Opioid-Dependent Patients Undergoing HIV Treatment.Journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes (1999) · 2015Article
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purposeTo assess the impact of illicit drug use and chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in women with HIV or at risk for HIV infection.
methodsCross-sectional analysis of data from the Women's Interagency Health Study (WIHS) of women with HIV (n = 2508) and at high risk of HIV infection (n = 889) in the US. A Short-Form-6D (SF-6D) HRQoL measure derived from the Medical Outcomes Study-HIV (MOS-HIV) questionnaire, HIV infection status, CD4 cell count (a measure of immune status), antiretroviral treatment, current illicit drug use (heroin and/or cocaine), and HCV status were assessed at a recent study visit. We developed multivariate linear regression models adjusting for age, race/ethnicity, education, and testing for interactions.
resultsHIV-infected women with ≤200 CD4 cells/µL had lower mean HRQoL scores (0.69) than either HIV-infected women with >200 CD4 cells/µL (0.78) or HIV-uninfected women (0.80) (P < 0.01). In multivariate analysis, illicit drug use, chronic HCV, and low CD4 count were independently associated with lower HRQoL. There was a differential effect of HCV and illicit drug use for HIV-infected women depending on CD4 cell count: HIV-infected women with >200 CD4 cells/µL had a significantly greater reduction in HRQoL associated with illicit drug use (-0.063) and chronic HCV (-0.036) than women with ≤200 CD4 cells/µL (-0.017, -0.005 respectively).
conclusionsPoorly controlled HIV, illicit drug use, and chronic HCV are associated with lower HRQoL. Illicit drug use and chronic HCV have greater HRQoL impacts for HIV-infected women with well-controlled HIV versus those with poorly controlled HIV, which may affect clinical and policy priorities.
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