Poor Quality of Life Associated With Traditional Chinese Medicine Constitution in HIV-infected Men Who Have Sex With Men

Taipei City Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; HIV Infections

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: World Health Organization Quality of Life -Brief -Taiwan version (WHOQOL-BREF-Taiwan version)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05299775

TCHIRB-10707110

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study explores the pathological constitution as it relates to low quality of life with HIV- infected MSM patients, as a reference for clinical treatment.

Full description

Introduction :This study explores the pathological constitution as it relates to low quality of life with HIV- infected MSM patients, as a reference for clinical treatment.

Methods :It has a cross-sectional research design using structured questionnaires to collect data,including patient's basic case data, CD4+, CD4+/CD8+ ratio, Wang Qi constitution and WHOQOL-BREF -Taiwan version questionnaires. We consider the association between the constitutions and quality of life for HIV-infected MSM patients.

Enrollment: 203 patients

Sex: Male

Ages: 20 to 49 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with HIV infected.
• Age greater than 20 years old (including) and less than 60 years old.
• Conscious clear and voluntary to attend the project with agreement.
• Willing to fill out the informed consent form.

Exclusion criteria

• conscious unclear
• Patients had histories of severe psychiatric disorders ( ex: schizophrenia) or if they met the criteria of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( ex: dementia)
• Age < 20 years old.
• The patient does not want to fill out the informed consent form for any reason.

Trial design

203 participants in 2 patient groups

HIV infected time

Description:

Group are divided by Infected time: 0-2W, 2W-12M, \>1Y

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: World Health Organization Quality of Life -Brief -Taiwan version (WHOQOL-BREF-Taiwan version)

different constitutions

Description:

Group are divided by different constitutions:It includes 9 basic types of constitution, yang deficiency , yin deficiency , qi deficiency , phlegm dampness , damp-heat, blood stasis, special diathesis , qi depression , gentleness constitution .