Relationship Between Immunity Level and Quality of Life among Housewives Living with HIV (Cross-sectional Study in Central Borneo, Indonesia)

Abstract

Background: In Central Kalimantan Province, housewives constitute the second largest group of people with HIV (+) (19.4%) after the private group. Most of them (61.4%) reported on the poor quality of life, especially in the domain of psychology due to frustration and poverty. In its management, the intervention program has not fully integrated the life quality of people with HIV toward the accepted treatment model because of the lack of information about the case. Therefore, the particular study aims to find out the relationship between quality of life and the level of immunity of housewives with HIV (+), which expect to have benefited the development of a program for managing ODHA in Central Kalimantan Province. Method: Cross-sectional study approach used in the research where the population is a housewife with HIV (+) who lives in Central Kalimantan Province. The purposive sampling technique used to select the sample with criteria of the subjects have a CD4 > 200 cell/µL and are excluded when experiencing psychiatric disorders and/or dying. There were 54 people as the sample. Data were analyzed bivariate using chi-square test and multivariate analysis with logistic regression. Result and conclusion :The results of statistical tests showed no significant relationship between quality of life and the level of immunity of participants in the physical domain (p = .2.071); psychological domain (p = 0.610); social domain (p = 0.595); environmental domain (p = 0.393); perception of health conditions (p = 0.317) and; perception of quality of life (p = 2.140).It needs further assessment toward the total number of CD4 before starting ART, treatment adherence, disease history and lifestyle of the participants. And, interventions can improve the quality of life and increase the immunity of participants