Nurse directed rehabilitation programme on quality of life in patients with human immunodeficiency virus

HIV infection is one of the chronic illnesses with an uncertain natural disease history. The present study aims to find the effectiveness of Nurse Directed Rehabilitation Programme on quality of life in patients with HIV infection. 130 HIV infected patients from Care and Support centers of Kottayam district, Kerala were selected for the study and randomly divided into 2 groups with Mean ±SD age of 35.84±7.45years. Experimental group were given Rehabilitation Programme for 30 minutes 4 days/week for 6 months after obtaining informed consent. Quality of life was assessed by WHOQOLHIV-BREF Scale at the baseline and after intervention. Both groups were homogenous at the base line in outcome measure. Experimental group showed significant improvement in outcome measure with p<0.001 whereas control group showed no change in quality of life. This study concludes that Nurse Directed Rehabilitation Programme is effective as an adjunct therapy in patients with HIV infection that significantly improves the quality of life and physical wellbeing.