Study characteristics on health-related quality of life in older people living with human immunodeficiency virus: A narrative review

Table 2 Demographics of eligible studies reported in the narrative review (n = 68), excluding two studies[80,81]

Studies	Mean/median/n (SD/IQR/%)	Number of reported studies (%)
Total participants	53504	68
Sample of older participants (100 or less)	-	12 (22.64)
Median age, years	51.0 (11.0)	59
Age group1
Younger age (< 50 years)	31519 (67.44)	53
Older age (≥ 50 years)	15216 (32.56)	53
Sex1
Female	15338 (31.75)	62
Male	32965 (68.25)	62
Race1
White	14126 (43.95)	46
Black	11805 (36.73)	33
Other	6210 (19.32)	33
Education levels1
High school or less	25257 (59.47)	41
College (some years) or higher	17212 (40.53)	36
Employed1
Yes	7175	19
Risk of exposures1
Homosexual	12706 (53.62)	25
Drug use	6387 (26.96)	17
Heterosexual	4075 (17.20)	14
HIV status1
Median time (years) since known HIV diagnosis	17.0 (10.0)	32
Median current CD4 T-cells	618 (74)	17
Median lowest CD4 T-cells	245 (202)	12
A history of AIDS diagnosis	5,259	17
Mean summary scores of MOS-HIV
Physical-HRQoL	53.85 (9.43)	13
Mental-HRQoL	51.54 (9.81)	13
Studies included only2
Older people	6289 (41.33)	21
Older females	1966 (12.82)	4
Older non-heterosexual individuals	910 (60.60)	6
Study years
1995-2010	-	7 (10.29)
2011-2015	-	22 (32.25)
2016-2020	-	33 (48.53)
2021-2022	-	6 (8.82)
Study places
North America region	-	38 (55.88)
Europe region	-	13 (19.12)
Others	-	17 (25.00)

¹Percentages presented between a numerator and denominator of a corresponding variable.

²Percentages presented between a numerator and denominator of all older, female, or homosexual samples in the reported studies.

IQR: Interquartile range; SD: Standard deviation; MOS-HIV: Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey; HRQoL: Health-related quality of life.