Gender difference in health related quality of life and associated factors among people living with HIV/AIDS attending anti-retroviral therapy at public health facilities, western Ethiopia: comparative cross sectional study

Table 2 Gender difference in mean score of HRQOL domains of PLWHA on ART in public health institutions, western Ethiopia, 2017

HRQOL Domains	Mean ± SD	Mean ± SD	t-value	P-value
HRQOL Domains	Male (= 251)	Female (= 254)	t-value	P-value
Overall HRQOL	3.5(1.1)	3.0(1.0)	4.4	0.001
General health perception	4.2(1.2)	3.5(1.2)	6.7	0.001
Physical	15.3(3.2)	13.9(2.6)	5.9	0.001
Psychological	14.1(4.0)	12.6(3.0)	6.2	0.001
Level of independence	13.7(3.3)	12.1(2.5)	5.4	0.001
Social relationships	12.0(2.8)	11.9(2.5)	1.0	0.322
Environment	11.4(3.4)	10.4(2.6)	3.9	0.001
Spiritual/personal belief	15.7(3.2)	15.5(3.0)	1.5	0.132

Displayed the gender difference in mean score of health related quality of life domains of PLHIV on ART in public health institutions, western Ethiopia. The result showed that average scores of females for all the six domains and two general questions were lower than the males score on the 4–20 scales. There was significant difference in quality of life between males and females for all domains and two general questions except the Social relationships and spiritual/personal belief domains (p-value < 0.006)

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