The optimal goals in the treatment of HIV/AIDS patients are to prolong their survival and reduce opportunistic infection with prognosis in order to help them maintain good self care and quality of life in the community. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationship between self-care, social support, biomarkers, and quality of life among people living with HIV/AIDS receiving antiretroviral therapy in the NAPHA project, Bamrasnaradura Infection Disease Institute,. Nontaburi province. A set of questionnaire was used as a tool for data collection. The sample were three hundred fifty patients drawn from stratified random sampling in the NAPHA project. Frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, maximum, minimum, Pearson’s Product Moment correlation Coefficient, and Multiple Regression were used for data analysis. The results showed that people living with HIV/AIDS receiving antiretroviral therapy in the NAPHA Project had moderate level of self-care, social support, and quality of life. The mean scores of self-care, social support, quality of life were 141.73, 106.06, 122.02 respectively. Self-care, CD4 cells count as one cycle from collection data date had a significantly positive relationship with the quality of life (r = .130 and .119, p-value < .05). Social support had a significantly positive relationship with quality of life (r =.262 p-value = 0.01). Self-care had a significantly positive relationship with social support (r = .370 p-value = 0.01). Self- care, CD4 cell count as one cycle from data collection date and social support accounted 8.2% of variance in predicting quality of life. The results of this study could serve as baseline information for the level of self-care, social support, Bio-Markers, and quality of life among people living with HIV/AIDS receiving antiretroviral therapy and related factors. Health care service promoting self-care and social support will increase quality of life among people living with HIV/AIDS in National Access To Antiretroviral Program in the future.

Public Health Nursing มหาวิทยาลัยมหิดล ปี 2549

of, AIDS, HIV, Quality, life, SELF-CARE, ANTI RETROVIRAL, BIO-MARKERS, LIVING, PEOPLE