Abstract

Objective To understand the quality of life of hospitalized AIDS patients and analysis the influential factors, to provide basis for making related clinical nursing measures. Methods To combine qualitative and quantitative research and use cluster sampling method, 40 hospitalized AIDS patients were investigated by the general information questionnaire and the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale ( WHOQOL), 10 cases of them were interviewed deeply. To analyze the results statistically. Results All areas of quality of life of 40 hospitalized patients were lower than the normal crowd. The differences were statistically significant. Patients had various levels of problems in the area of physiological, psychological and social relationship. Conclusions The quality of life of hospitalized AIDS patients is related to patients' physiological,psychological social relationship and understanding level of related knowledge. Nurse should take appropriate measures to promote hospitalized AIDS patient' quality of life. Key words: Hospitalized patients; AIDS; Quality of life

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