Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) from HIV patients’ perspective: comparison of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures among people living with hiv (PLWH) and other chronic clinical conditions

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes

Table 4 Significative (p< 0.05) correlations between PROMs and socio-demographic and clinical characteristics at multiple regression analysis

PROMs	Variable	b	SE	p
SF-36
Physical health (PH)	Age*	− 0.48	0.13	< 0.001
Physical health (PH)	HIV**	− 12.32	2.89	< 0.001
Mental health (MH)	Polypharmacy^#	− 5.05	2.60	0.054
Bodily pain (BP)	HIV**	− 16.12	3.16	< 0.001
Bodily pain (BP)	Age*	− 0.54	0.14	< 0.001
General health (GH)	Polypharmacy^#	− 5.16	3.09	0.01
General health (GH)	HIV**	− 18.18	3.10	< 0.001
Physical functioning (PF)	Age*	− 0.73	0.22	0.007
Physical functioning (PF)	HIV**	− 27.6	4.98	0.001
Vitality (VT)	Polypharmacy^#	− 6.36	2.73	0.021
Vitality (VT)	HIV**	− 8.97	2.75	0.001
Social functioning (SF)	HIV**	− 11.08	3.11	< 0.001
Emotional functioning (EF)	HIV**	− 14.35	5.39	0.008
Emotional functioning (EF)	Age*	− 0.55	0.24	0.026
EQ-5D
Score	HIV**	− 6.03	1.22	< 0.001
	Age*	0.33	0.15	0.025
	Duration of the disease	− 0.32	0.16	0.045
	Polypharmacy^#	− 11.3	3.2	< 0.001
Perceived health status	Polypharmacy^#	− 5.15	2.09	0.014
Perceived health status	HIV**	− 5.52	2.11	0.014

other variables in the model: gender, ethnicity, time from chronic condition diagnosis, presence of complications related to chronic condition
^*For each year older
**vs other condition
^#Any drug other than drugs for primary chronic condition