Biomedical & Pharmacology Journal, June 2021. Vol. 14(2), p. 881-889
Published by Oriental Scientific Publishing Company © 2021
This is an Open Access article licensed under a Creative Commons license: Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY).
Relationship Between Immunity Level and Quality
of Life among Housewives Living with HIV
(Cross-sectional Study in Central Borneo, Indonesia)
Nurhalina Nurhalina* and Faradila Faradila
Departement of Health Science, Muhammadiyah University of Palangkaraya Indonesia, Indonesia.
*Corresponding author E-mail: nurhalina.ahmadi123@gmail.com
https://dx.doi.org/10.13005/bpj/2190
(Received: 10 February 2021; accepted: 29 June 2021)
In Central Kalimantan Province, housewives constitute the second largest group of
people with HIV (+) (19.4%) after the private group. Most of them (61.4%) reported on the poor
quality of life, especially in the domain of psychology due to frustration and poverty. In its
management, the intervention program has not fully integrated the life quality of people with
HIV toward the accepted treatment model because of the lack of information about the case.
Therefore, the particular study aims to find out the relationship between quality of life and the
level of immunity of housewives with HIV (+), which expect to have benefited the development
of a program for managing ODHA in Central Kalimantan Province. Cross-sectional study
approach used in the research where the population is a housewife with HIV (+) who lives
in Central Kalimantan Province. The purposive sampling technique used to select the sample
with criteria of the subjects have a CD4 > 200 cell/µL and are excluded when experiencing
psychiatric disorders and/or dying. There were 54 people as the sample. Data were analyzed
bivariate using chi-square test and multivariate analysis with logistic regression. The results
of statistical tests showed no significant relationship between quality of life and the level of
immunity of participants in the physical domain (p = .2.071); psychological domain (p = 0.610);
social domain (p = 0.595); environmental domain (p = 0.393); perception of health conditions
(p = 0.317) and; perception of quality of life (p = 2.140).It needs further assessment toward the
total number of CD4 before starting ART, treatment adherence, disease history and lifestyle of
the participants. And, interventions can improve the quality of life and increase the immunity
of participants
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, Housewives, Level of immunity, PLWHA, , Quality of life.
Indonesia has the 3rd largest prevalence
of HIV infection in Asia Pacifc, with the annual
rate of new cases reaching 16%.
1
In 2018, the
cumulative number of people with HIV was
242,699 and those with AIDS was 87,453. Central
Borneo is the largest province on the island of
Borneo, Indonesia. Compared to other regions
in the country, the HIV infection prevalence in
this province is low, with a cumulative number
of people with HIV at 810 in 2017.
2
Although the
number of cases in the province is relatively small,
there are particular challenges in dealing with HIV
infection. The absence of donor agencies is an
additional obstacle for peer support groups (PSG)