RESEARCH ARTICLE
HIV-Related Behaviors, Social Support and Health-Related Quality of Life among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women (MSMW): A Cross-Sectional Study in Chongqing, China Jiang-Peng Chen1, Ming-Ming Han1, Zi-Jun Liao2, Zhen-Zhen Dai1, Liang Liu3, Hua Chen1, Xiao-Yan Wen1, Shan Hu1, Ping Que1, Wen Wen1, Bin Peng1* 1 Department of Health Statistics and Information Management, School of Public Health and Management, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, 2 Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China, 3 Beichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Mianyang, Sichuan Province, China *
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Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Chen J-P, Han M-M, Liao Z-J, Dai Z-Z, Liu L, Chen H, et al. (2015) HIV-Related Behaviors, Social Support and Health-Related Quality of Life among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Women (MSMW): A Cross-Sectional Study in Chongqing, China. PLoS ONE 10(2): e0118651. doi:10.1371/ journal.pone.0118651
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Academic Editor: Zhefeng Meng, Fudan University, CHINA
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Received: November 4, 2014 Accepted: January 11, 2015 Published: February 20, 2015 Copyright: © 2015 Chen et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Data Availability Statement: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files. Funding: These authors have no support or funding to report. Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has become commonly used both as a concept and as a field of research. However, little is known about the HRQOL of men who have sex with men and women (MSMW). The aim of this study was to examine HIV-related behaviors, social support, and HRQOL status and explore its predictors among MSMW.
An anonymous cross-sectional study was conducted by snowball sampling method in 2013. A total of 563 Chinese MSM completed a structured questionnaire. The HRQOL and social support were measured with the Chinese version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Scale (WHOQOL-BRFE) and the Social Support Rating Scale (SSRS), respectively.
Results Of the 563 MSM analyzed, 77 (13.68%) were MSMW who had a higher proportion of in-marriage and preference for an insertive role as compared with the men who have sex with men only (MSMO) (P
