Table 2.
Quality of life transformed scores of 294 Thai and Cambodian HIV-infected children naïve to antiretroviral therapy.
| Total (N=294) | 1–4 years (N=103) | 5–11 years (N=191) |
p-Valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Health perception | 69.9 (17.6) | 64.6 (18.7) | 72.7 (16.4) | <0.001 |
| Physical resilience | 64.5 (16.2) | 63.4 (16.5) | 65.2 (16.0) | NS |
| Physical functioning | 84.2 (15.6) | 71.5 (13.5) | 91.1 (12.0) | <0.001 |
| Psychological wellbeing | 77.9 (16.3) | NA | 77.9 (16.3) | NA |
| Social and role functioning | 74.7 (28.7) | 50.4 (24.5) | 87.3 (21.8) | <0.001 |
| Health care utilization | 90.0 (12.1) | 88.1 (13.0) | 91.1 (11.4) | <0.05 |
| Symptoms | 87.4 (11.3) | 86.6 (10.9) | 87.9 (11.6) | NS |
Notes: Quality of life score assessed by the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group (PACTG) quality of life questionnaire (Gortmaker et al., 1998; Lee et al., 2006). Scores ranged from 0–100; higher scores indicated better health.
NA, not applicable; NS, not statistically significant.
a
The comparison was made by t-test.