Self-care intervention guidelines on improving knowledge on self-care

the knowledge of PLHIV on self-care and their QOL" The objectives of the study were to evaluate the effectiveness of self-care intervention guidelines on knowledge on self-care and QOL of PLHIV and to identify the relationships of pre-test scores of knowledge on self-care and QOL of PLHIV with their selected socio-demographic variables. Material and methods Design and samplingA randomized control design was used.The study was conducted at the ART clinic of a tertiary hospital in Tamil Nadu.A total of 150 subjects were randomly allocated to the experimental and control group by permuted block randomization with 75 subjects in each group.Sample size was determined based on the pilot study findings assuming the SD of 10 points with the power of 80% and at 5% level of significance.The calculation was based on the assumption that the measurements on quality of life scale are normally distributed.