Evaluating Quality of Life and Marital Contentment among Seroconcordant and Serodiscordant HIV-Infected Couples in Comparison to Non- HIV Couples.

This was a cross-sectional survey, so it describes differences at a single time point and cannot show that HIV caused lower quality of life or marital contentment. The HIV-positive couples were recruited from a single HIV referral counselling centre and the non-HIV couples from a routine gynaecology clinic, so the groups may not be comparable. The non-HIV couples were younger and had higher education than the HIV-positive couples, which may explain part of the score difference. People with chronic disease or malignancy were excluded, so the results may not apply to patients with common comorbidities. The authors did not include factors such as culture, social status, health-system variation, and other sexually transmitted infections, which can affect quality of life. The study used self-reported questionnaires about the last two weeks, so findings depend on participants' current perceptions.

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Do not conclude that serodiscordant couples have worse quality of life or marital contentment than seroconcordant couples. The study found no significant difference between these two HIV-positive groups.