title: Quality of life and people living with AIDS: relationship with sociodemographic and health aspects.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  to analyze the relationship of sociodemographic and health dimensions with the quality of life of people living with the human immunodeficiency virus.
  
  
  METHODS
  descriptive and quantitative study. The subjects were 131 seropositive people treated in a specialized center of the Norte-Fluminense municipality, Brazil. A form with sociodemographic and health data was applied, as well as the World Health Organization instrument for the assessment of the quality of life of people with the human immunodeficiency virus.
  
  
  RESULTS
  the statistical analysis revealed a significant difference in the assessment of the various dimensions of quality of life by the subjects for gender, education, employment, personal income, medical condition, self-perception of sickness, history of hospitalizations, and bodily alterations due to the antiretroviral drugs.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  professional nursing and health care, as well as public policies in the area, should valorize the quality of life approach, considering the conditions related to its configuration.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio do Janeiro, Macaé, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Tadeu Lessa
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: da Costa
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Denize Cristina
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: de Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Enfermagem, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Antonio Marcos Tosoli
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal do Rio do Janeiro, Macaé, RJ, Brazil.
authors.forename: Gláucia Alexandre
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Formozo
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications; D000328:Adult; D003710:Demography; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult