AVALIAÇÃO DA QUALIDADE DE VIDA EM PACIENTES IMUNODEPRIMIDOS HIV/AIDS: REVISÃO DE LITERATURA.

Seeking to further enhance care for immunosuppressed HIV / AIDS patients, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a way to evaluate their quality of life. As HIV / AIDS is a chronic disease, and with the introduction of drugs in 1986, the expectancy of life of those patients increased over the years and the health care professionals started to give more attention to the quality of life those patients could have. A new quality of life assessment, the WHOQOL-100, was then developed and has a wide approach, being used for HIV / AIDS patients with questions regarding physical capacity, psychological, independence, social relationships, environment and spirituality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]