Factors associated with health-related quality of life in people living with HIV in Norway

Table 2 Health-related quality of life in people living with HIV using the 36-item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire (n = 245)

	All n = 245	Women n = 114	Men n = 131	p-value
Health-related quality of life
SF-36, mean (SD)
Mental health	73.5 (22.1)	73.0 (21.0)	73.9 (23.1)	.731
Vitality	59.3 (25.5)	63.1 (23.6)	55.9 (26.7)	.026*
Bodily pain	70.7 (29.6)	71.1 (27.1)	70.4 (31.8)	.850
General health	68.6 (27.4)	73.4 (23.2)	64.4 (30.1)	.009*
Social function	79.2 (29.0)	82.7 (26.1)	76.1 (31.2)	.072
Physical function	84.9 (20.6)	86.4 (17.8)	83.6 (22.8)	.287
Physical role limitations	67.5 (40.9)	72.2 (39.3)	63.4 (42.0)	.092
Emotional role limitations	74.4 (39.1)	76.0 (38.0)	73.0 (40.1)	.549
SF-36-PCS	49.3 (10.2)	50.6 (8.7)	48.8 (11.3)	.058
SF-36-MCS	46.0 (13.8)	46.7 (12.6)	45.9 (14.7)	.511

SF-36 36-item Short Form Health Survey questionnaire, SF-36-PCS physical component summary, SF-36-MCS mental component summary, HRQOL Health-related quality of life. Data are shown as the mean and standard deviation (SD). The SF-36 range is 0–100, where 100 indicates a high HRQOL. Student’s independent-sample t tests were used for comparisons between groups
*Significant at 5% level

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