| Title | Health-related quality of life in HIV-1-infected patients on HAART: a five-years longitudinal analysis accounting for dropout in the APROCO-COPILOTE cohort (ANRS CO-8). | | Author(s) | Protopopescu C, Marcellin F, Spire B, Préau M, Verdon R, Peyramond D, Raffi F, Chêne G, Leport C, Carrieri MP | | Institution | Health and Medical Research National Institute (INSERM), Research Unit 379, Social Sciences Applied to Medical Innovation, 23, rue Stanislas Torrents, 13006, Marseilles, France. | | Source | Qual Life Res 2007 Feb 1. | | Abstract | BACKGROUND: The long-term efficacy of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapies (HAART) has enlightened the crucial role of health-related quality of life (HRQL) among HIV-infected patients. However, any analysis of such extensive longitudinal data necessitates a suitable handling of dropout which may correlate with patients' health status.
METHODS: We analysed the HRQL evolution over 5 years for 1,000 patients initiating a protease inhibitor (PI)-containing therapy, using MOS SF-36 physical (PCS) and mental (MCS) scores. In parallel with a classical separate random effects model, we used a joint parameter-dependent selection model to account for non-ignorable dropout.
RESULTS: HRQL evolved according to a two-phase pattern, characterized by an initial improvement during the year following HAART initiation and a relative stabilization thereafter. Immunodepression and self-reported side effects were found to be negative predictors of both PCS and MCS scores. Hepatitis C virus coinfection and AIDS clinical stage were found to affect physical HRQL. Results were not significantly altered when accounting for dropout.
CONCLUSION: Such results, obtained on a large sample of HIV-infected patients with extensive follow-up, underline the need for a regular monitoring of patients' immunological status and for a better management of their experience with hepatitis C and HAART. | | Language | ENG | | Pub Type(s) | JOURNAL ARTICLE
| | PubMed ID | 17268929 |
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