The Quality of Life of Patients With Severe Illnesses
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00173329 |
Recruitment Status
: Unknown
Verified September 2005 by National Taiwan University Hospital.
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
First Posted
: September 15, 2005
Last Update Posted
: October 21, 2005
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Lately researchers and clinicians have emphasized the health related quality of life. Several reasons account for this trend. First of all, the advanced medical practices have contributed to the increased life expectancy. Secondly, the pattern of diseases has shifted from high acuity to chronicity. Therefore, the effectiveness of health care could not be solely evaluated by the rates of morbidity and mortality. The state of patients’ quality of life has become the pivotal indicator of the effectiveness of health care interventions. On the other hand, patients’ subjective perceptions of health care are crucial factors in treatment processes. Therefore quality of life becomes reference in choosing health care interventions to enhance the benefits of patients.
The scopes of quality of life research include the essence of quality of life, the measurements of quality of life and the relationships between quality of life and its related factors, etc. The local researchers have long put efforts in quality of life research. The results of these studies have contributed to the understandings of different patients’ quality of life. However, the majority of studies have focused on specific diseases. This study propose to extend the scope of quality of life research to study patients’ quality of life of two severe illnesses, i.e. HIV infections and schizophrenia. These two illnesses represent two severe physical and psychiatric illnesses. Even their etiology, mechanisms, disease process, signs and symptoms, and treatments are different. However, the similarities of these two illnesses include both are severe illnesses without cure, both are stigmatized by the society. Patients with these two illnesses suffer in their personal lives, social relations and quality of life. Therefore the current study to further investigate and compare and contrast the essence of patients’ quality of life and their related factors.
The proposed study is a second year study of the two-year study - The quality of life of patients with severe illnesses (NSC93-2314-B-002-294). The first year study focused on the investigation of the quality of life of patients with HIV infections (NSC93-2314-B-002-294). The aim of this proposed study is to compare and contrast the quality of life and its related factors of patients with schizophrenia and HIV infections. The contributions of this study include the in-depth understandings of quality of life of patients with HIV infections and schizophrenia and the comparison of quality of life of different illnesses. The results serve as the foundations in future development of intervention programs to enhance patients’ quality of life and cost-effectiveness analyses.
Condition or disease |
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Schizophrenia HIV Infections |
Study Type : | Observational |
Observational Model: | Defined Population |
Time Perspective: | Cross-Sectional |
Time Perspective: | Prospective |
Study Start Date : | August 2005 |
Study Completion Date : | July 2006 |


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Ages Eligible for Study: | Child, Adult, Senior |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- people with schizophrenia
- people with HIV
Exclusion Criteria:

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT00173329
Contact: Ping-Chuan Hsiung, PH.D | 02-23123456 ext 8430 |
Taiwan | |
Ping-Chuan,Hsiung | Recruiting |
Taipei, Taiwan | |
Contact: Ping-Chuan Hsiung 02-23123456 ext 8430 |
Study Chair: | Ping-Chuan Hsiung, PH.D | National Taiwan University Hospital |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT00173329 History of Changes |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
9461700615 NSC93-2314-B-002-294 |
First Posted: | September 15, 2005 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | October 21, 2005 |
Last Verified: | September 2005 |
Keywords provided by National Taiwan University Hospital:
HIV |
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Schizophrenia HIV Infections Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders Mental Disorders Lentivirus Infections Retroviridae Infections |
RNA Virus Infections Virus Diseases Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral Sexually Transmitted Diseases Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes Immune System Diseases |