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Published in: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 1/2017

Open Access 01-12-2017 | Research

The effects of beliefs about AIDS-related death on quality of life in Chinese married couples with both husband and wife infected with HIV: examining congruence using the actor-partner interdependence model

Author: Nancy Xiaonan Yu

Published in: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes | Issue 1/2017

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Abstract

Background

This cross-sectional study examined the actor and partner effects of beliefs about AIDS-related death on quality of life in Chinese married couples in which both were living with HIV.

Methods

A total of 49 married couples in central China who were both infected with HIV completed measures to assess their beliefs about AIDS-related death and quality of life.

Results

In the actor-partner interdependence model, the husband-wife dyad showed congruence in their beliefs about AIDS-related death (r = .40) and quality of life–mental health summary (r = .31), respectively, within the couple. Both actor and partner effects of beliefs about AIDS-related death on the quality of life–mental health summary, rather than the quality of life–physical health summary, were significant within the husband-wife dyad.

Conclusions

Our findings indicate the dyadic interdependence of beliefs about AIDS-related death and the quality of life–mental health summary in married couples. Psychosocial interventions that target a reduction of negative death beliefs and enhancement of well-being in the context of HIV should treat the couple as a unit.
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Metadata
Title
The effects of beliefs about AIDS-related death on quality of life in Chinese married couples with both husband and wife infected with HIV: examining congruence using the actor-partner interdependence model
Author
Nancy Xiaonan Yu
Publication date
01-12-2017
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes / Issue 1/2017
Electronic ISSN: 1477-7525
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-017-0703-z

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