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Table 5 Health-related quality of life of HIV testers

From: Cost and quality of life analysis of HIV self-testing and facility-based HIV testing and counselling in Blantyre, Malawi

 

Intervention clusters

Control clusters

HIVST v

Intervention Facility HTC v Control Facility HTC

All Facility HTC

HIVST (n = 775)

Facility HTC (n = 253)

Facility HTC (n = 213)

p-value

p-value

HIV test result (n/%)

HIV negative

670 (86 . 5 %)

146 (57 . 7 %)

115 (54 . 0 %)

 

0 . 421

HIV positive

104 (13 . 4 %)

107 (42 . 3 %)

98 (46 . 0 %)

<0 . 001

Not reported

1 (0 . 1 %)

0 (0 %)

0 (0 %)

 

EQ-5D: Utility score (mean/SE)

All

0 . 905 (0 . 897, 0 . 913)

0 . 828 (0 . 812, 0 . 844)

0 . 839 (0 . 821, 0 . 857)

<0 . 001

0 . 359

HIV negative

0 . 916 (0 . 908, 0 . 924)

0 . 853 (0 . 834, 0 . 873)

0 . 862 (0 . 839, 0 . 884)

<0 . 001

0 . 591

HIV positive

0 . 842 (0 . 814, 0 . 870)

0 . 794 (0 . 768, 0 . 819)

0 . 813 (0 . 786, 0 . 840)

0 . 022

0 . 306

EQ-5D: VAS score (mean/SE)

All

82 . 1 (81 . 0, 83 . 3)

74 . 5 (72 . 2, 76 . 8)

75 . 4 (72 . 9, 78 . 0)

<0 . 001

0 . 597

HIV negative

83 . 7 (82 . 5, 84 . 9)

79 . 4 (76 . 6, 82 . 2)

79 . 5 (76 . 0, 82 . 9)

<0 . 001

0 . 966

HIV positive

72 . 5 (69 . 0, 76 . 0)

67 . 9 (64 . 4, 71 . 3)

70 . 7 (67 . 0, 74 . 4)

0 . 135

0 . 270

EQ-5D: Mobility (n/%)

Moderate or severe problems

HIV negative

61 (9 . 1 %)

34 (23 . 3 %)

17 (14 . 8 %)

<0 . 001

0 . 085

HIV positive

23 (22 . 3 %)

40 (37 . 0 %)

33 (34 . 0 %)

0 . 018

0 . 652

EQ-5D: Self-care (n/%)

Moderate or severe problems

HIV negative

5 (0 . 7 %)

2 (1 . 4 %)

1 (0 . 9 %)

0 . 551

0 . 707

HIV positive

3 (2 . 9 %)

6 (5 . 6 %)

1 (1 . 0 %)

0 . 815

0 . 075

EQ-5D: Usual activities (n/%)

Moderate or severe problems

HIV negative

25 (3 . 7 %)

19 (13 . 0 %)

13 (11 . 3 %)

<0 . 001

0 . 676

HIV positive

19 (18 . 4 %)

26 (24 . 1 %)

25 (25 . 8 %)

0 . 204

0 . 779

EQ-5D: Pain (n/%)

Moderate or severe problems

HIV negative

159 (23 . 8 %)

55 (37 . 7 %)

50 (43 . 5 %)

<0 . 001

0 . 342

HIV positive

50 (48 . 5 %)

68 (63 . 0 %)

50 (51 . 5 %)

0 . 134

0 . 099

EQ-5D: Anxiety (n/%)

Moderate or severe problems

HIV negative

212 (31 . 7 %)

71 (48 . 6 %)

49 (42 . 6 %)

<0 . 001

0 . 333

HIV positive

44 (42 . 7 %)

57 (52 . 8 %)

53 (54 . 6 %)

0 . 070

0 . 790

Self-assessed health (n/%)

Poor or very poor

HIV negative

6 (0 . 9 %)

6 (4 . 1 %)

5 (4 . 3 %)

0 . 001

0 . 924

Poor or very poor

HIV positive

5 (4 . 9 %)

13 (12 . 0 %)

9 (9 . 3 %)

0 . 085

0 . 524