Rajshree Thapa|Archana Amatya|Durga Prasad Pahari|Kiran Bam|Molly Newman
Nutritional status and its association with quality of life among people living with HIV attending public anti-retroviral therapy sites of Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital|Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital|Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital|BRAC University|Film Independent
little evidence exists connections nutrition diet intake quality life qol among people living hiv plhiv study aimed estimate prevalence undernutrition among plhiv nepal identify risk factors assess correlations plhivs qol nutritional status quantitative crosssectional study used body mass index bmi indicator nutritional status additional information opportunistic infections ois cd4 count world health organization clinical staging collected medical records participants asked complete surveys food security qol descriptive analysis used estimate prevalence nutrition assess associations nutrition status independent variables bivariate multivariate analysis completed spearmans rank correlation test used assess association nutritional status qol one five plhivs found nourished bmi 185 kgm2 illiteracy residence care homes cd4 cells count 350 cellsmm3 ois illness clinical stages iii iv found significant predictors nutrition bmi significantly correlated three domains qol psychological social environmental nutrition interventions form integral part hiv care programs understanding presence oi decline cd4 count advancing clinical stages risk factors helpful preventing nutrition developing longitudinal research necessary explicate associations nutritional status qol