Relationship between spiritual well-being and Health-Related Quality of Life and some related factors in patients with AIDS/HIV

Index	Spiritual health

	Total spiritual		Religious domain		Existential domain

	Correlation	P-value	Correlation	P-value	Correlation	P-value
1- Physical function	0.196	0.003	0.041	0.545	0.319	<0.01
2- Role limitations due to physical problems	0.141	0.034	−0.067	0.317	0.336	<0.01
3- Role limitations due to emotional problems	0.217	<0.01	0.092	0.171	0.304	<0.01
4- Energy/fatigue	0.527	<0.01	0.28	<0.01	0.675	<0.01
5- Emotional wellbeing	0.566	<0.01	0.397	<0.01	0.621	<0.01
6- Social functioning	0.302	<0.01	0.206	0.002	0.337	<0.01
7- Pain	0.319	0.038	−0.017	0.799	0.277	<0.01
8- General health	0.48	<0.01	0.265	<0.01	0.63	<0.01
9- Physical health	0.268	<0.01	0.044	0.511	0.45	<0.01
10- Mental health	0.509	<0.01	0.311	<0.01	0.609	<0.01

Occupation	Index	Total spiritual		Religious domain		Existential domain

		Correlation	P-value	Correlation	P-value	Correlation	P-value
Housewives, n=87
	1- Physical health	0.49	<0.01	0.287	0.007	0.602	<0.01
	2- Mental health	0.727	<0.01	0.647	<0.01	0.712	<0.01
	3- Total quality of life	0.664	<0.01	0.505	<0.01	0.721	<0.01
Self employment, n = 112
	1- Physical health	0.132	0.165	−0.504	0.57	0.32	0.001
	2- Mental health	0.411	<0.01	0.186	0.049	0.552	<0.01
	3- Total quality of life	0.307	<0.01	0.076	0.428	0.491	<0.01
Employee, n = 20
	1- Physical health	0.082	0.733	0.180	0.448	0.386	0.093
	2- Mental health	0.59	0.006	0.356	0.123	0.752	<0.01
	3- Total quality of life	0.333	0.152	0.034	0.886	0.628	0.003

Educational level	Index	Total spiritual		Religious domain		Existential domain

		Correlation	P-value	Correlation	P-value	Correlation	P-value
Illiterate, n = 9
	1- Physical health	−0.157	0.687	−0.533	0.14	0.228	0.556
	2- Mental health	0.457	0.217	0.467	0.205	0.374	0.322
	3- Total QoL	0.43	0.912	−0.294	0.443	0.359	0.343
Primary, n = 74
	1- Physical health	0.698	<0.01	0.594	<0.01	0.693	<0.01
	2- Mental health	0.746	<0.01	0.643	<0.01	0.729	<0.01
	3- Total QoL	0.786	<0.01	0.673	<0.01	0.774	<0.01
Secondary, n = 62
	1- Physical health	0.424	0.001	0.222	0.083	0.533	<0.01
	2- Mental health	0.507	<0.01	0.33	0.009	0.583	<0.01
	3- Total QoL	0.486	<0.01	0.284	0.025	0.586	<0.01
Diploma, n = 46
	1- Physical health	0.003	0.933	−0.188	0.211	0.225	0.132
	2- Mental health	0.442	0.002	0.242	0.106	0.567	<0.01
	3- Total QoL	0.275	0.064	0.033	0.825	0.49	0.001
University, n = 28
	1- Physical health	−0.234	0.231	−0.414	0.028	0.08	0.687
	2- Mental health	0.35	0.068	0.04	0.841	0.633	<0.01
	3- Total QoL	0.068	0.732	−0.231	0.237	0.432	0.022

Age groups (years)	Index	Total spiritual		Religious domain		Existential domain

		Correlation	P-value	Correlation	P-value	Correlation	P-value
18–28, n = 34
	1- Physical health	0.079	0.657	0.030-	0.865	0.179	0.311
	2- Mental health	0.297	0.088	0.13	0.464	0.44	0.009
	3- Total quality of life	0.228	0.195	0.064	0.72	0.372	0.03
29–39, n = 101
	1- Physical health	0.175	0.08	−0.048	0.635	0.373	<0.01
	2- Mental health	0.529	<0.01	0.38	<0.01	0.545	<0.01
	3- Total quality of life	0.391	<0.01	0.183	0.068	0.513	<0.01
40–50, n = 68
	1- Physical health	0.433	<0.01	0.191	0.119	0.607	<0.01
	2- Mental health	0.621	<0.01	0.382	0.001	0.748	<0.01
	3- Total quality of life	0.585	<0.01	0.316	0.009	0.755	<0.01
51–61, n = 21
	1- Physical health	0.564	0.008	0.393	0.078	0.636	0.002
	2- Mental health	0.486	0.025	0.318	0.161	0.563	0.008
	3- Total quality of life	0.585	0.005	0.397	0.075	0.668	0.001

QoL	Mean ± SD%		P-value

	Men	Women
1- Physical function	75.74 ± 27.40	79.64 ± 25.20	0.269
2- Role limitations due to physical problems	77.00 ± 27.34	83.03 ± 25.16	0.087
3- Role limitations due to emotional problems	72.05 ± 22.11	72.61 ± 22.90	0.851
4- Energy/fatigue	51.38 ± 21.30	52.36 ± 23.19	0.742
5- Emotional wellbeing	53.71 ± 21.84	53.96 ± 19.14	0.928
6- Social functioning	65.29 ± 36.40	76.45 ± 34.78	0.02
7- Pain	67.03 ± 30.02	69.86 ± 29.66	0.487
8- General health	53.12 ± 18.39	53.31 ± 17.82	0.367
9- Physical health	272.90 ± 80.51	287.85 ± 81.16	0.168
10- Mental health	242.44 ± 78.25	255.40 ± 74.80	0.207