Social support for 330 HIV/AIDS patients under antiretroviral treatment and related factors in ;Wuhan / 中华流行病学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the current status of social support for HIV/AIDS patients under antiretroviral treatment(ART)and related factors in Wuhan. Methods Social Support Rating Scale(SSRS)was used to analyze the current status of social support for HIV/AIDS patients under ART in Wuhan. Student’s t test,analysis of variance(ANOVA)and multiple linear regression model were used to identify the related factors. Results The scores of subjective support,objective support,utilization of social support,and overall social support for 330 HIV/AIDS patients were significant lower than the national norm(P<0.05). Multiple linear regression analysis showed that the subjective support(β′=-0.260),objective support(β′=-0.196)and overall social support(β′=-0.141) for the patients who were unmarried,divorced or widowed were worse than those for the patients who were married(P<0.05). The patients with higher educational level had more objective support(β′=0.250)and utilization of social support(β′=0.232)than those with lower educational level (P<0.05). The subjective support for patients without HIV related symptoms in the past two weeks was better than those with HIV related symptoms(β′=0.232,P<0.05). Conclusion The current status of social support for HIV/AIDS patients under ART in Wuhan was worse than that for healthy people. More attention should be paid to HIV/AIDS patients with worse social support.