[Study on quality of life of asymptomatic HIV infected persons with traditional Chinese medicine].
OBJECTIVE
Study on quality of life of asymptomatic HIV infected persons with traditional Chinese medical, which can provide the clinical basis for improving the quality of life.


METHODS
This study applied a randomized, double-blind, and placeb-parallel control designed method to select 1 200 persons in the asymptomatic period of HIV infection as the subjects. The subjects were randomly divided into the treatment group and the control group at the ratio of about 2:1. According to the results of monthly differential diagnosis of TCM, the test group and the control group were given homologue Chinese drugs preparations and model Chinese drugs. The total study period was 18 months. Using PRO scale and the world health organization AIDS determination of quality of life short scale form (WHOQOL-HIV-BREF) to investigate asymptomatic HIV infected persons, according to different times, we calculated the total score and each domain score of quality of life of the treatment group and control group, we did statistical analysis.


RESULTS
Form the PRO scale,we can see that the treatment group showed a trend of stability, compared with the control group with significant statistical difference (P < 0.05) after 6 months; from the WHOQOL-HIV scale analysis, we can see that compared with before treatment, the quality of life of the treatment group was increased, the difference was significant (P < 0.05), but the quality of life of the control quality of life was decreased, the differences was significant (P < 0.05).


CONCLUSIONS
Dialectical therapy of Chinese medicine can significantly improve the patient's quality of life, which can provide the basis for the prevention and control policy formulation and implementation with asymptomatic HIV infected persons.
Institute of AIDS, Henan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000, China. xuliran666@sina.com
Li-Ran
LR
Xu
Xiao-Ping
XP
Yang
Hui-Jun
HJ
Guo
Jin-Wen
JW
Tu
Xin
X
Deng
Cui-E
CE
Liu
Wen-Hui
WH
Lun
Jun-Wen
JW
Wang
Jiang-Rong
JR
Wang
Xing-Hua
XH
Tan
Lu
L
Fang
D058070:Asymptomatic Diseases; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008516:Medicine, Chinese Traditional; D011788:Quality of Life; D016896:Treatment Outcome