Journal article
Health Values of Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Relationship to Mental Health and Physical Functioning
Medical care, v 34(1), pp 44-57
Jan 1996
PMID: 8551811
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Abstract
The health status of HIV-infected patients was compromised and, with the exception of mental health, generally was worse among patients with more advanced HIV-infection. Rating scale and Quality of Well-being Scale scores were related inversely to disease stage, but time-trade off scores generally were higher regardless of disease stage. Health value measures showed moderate relationships with measures of physical functioning (r = 0.34 - 0.68) but only a fair relationship with mental health (r = 0.00 - 0.48). The health status of HIV-infected patients who remained asymptomatic or remained symptomatic but without developing acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) changed little over 6 months, whereas the health status of patients with AIDS and of patients manifesting progression of HIV-infection deteriorated over time. In contrast, health values, particularly time-tradeoff scores, remained stable even in the face of changes in health status and disease progression. With the exception of mental health, the impact of HIV infection on health status tends to parallel the clinical stage of disease. Health values of HIV-infected patients, however, generally are high and correlate better with physical functioning than with mental health.
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- Title
- Health Values of Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Relationship to Mental Health and Physical Functioning
- Creators
- JOEL TSEVAT - From the Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. †From the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. ‡From the Section for Clinical Epidemiology, Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. §From the Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts. ¶From the Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. ∥From the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MassachusettsJENNY SOLZANKAREN KUNTZJULIA RAGLANDJUDITH CURRIERRANDALL SELLMILTON WEINSTEIN
- Publication Details
- Medical care, v 34(1), pp 44-57
- Publisher
- Lippincott-Raven Publishers
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:A1996TQ35600004
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-0029684773
- Other Identifier
- 991014878510704721
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