Role of Self-Efficacy in Quality of Life of People Living with HIV/AIDS

The purpose of the study was to examine the role of self-efficacy on Quality of Life of people living with HIV/AIDS. The sample of the present investigation comprised 225 subjects (male=116 andfemale=109) in the age range of 20 to 50 years from lower and middle class families. Only those subjects were included who were able to understand, read and write hindi/Punjabi/English. The HIV/AIDS patients were randomly selected from various ICTC and ART centers in Punjab. Self-efficacy was studied by using HIV self- efficacy (HIV-SE) questionnaire (Shively et al., 2002) and Quality oflife was measured by using MOS-HIV Health Survey (Wu, Rubin et al.,1991). Pearson Product Moment coefficient of correlation was computed to study the role of self-efficacy in quality of life. The results revealed that various domains of self-efficacy like managing depression, managing fatigue, managing symptoms and getting support were found to be positively correlated with physical functioning, cognitive functioning, mental health and QOL.