Quality of life assessment in people with HIV: analysis of the WHOQOL-HIV syntax.
This study aims to analyze the syntax of the World Health Organization's quality of life HIV/AIDS instrument (WHOQOL-HIV), provided by the WHOQOL-HIV Group. As a result, errors and inconsistencies in the syntax of WHOQOL-HIV were found. In face of the fragility found, two new syntaxes for WHOQOL-HIV...
| Publicado en: | AIDS Care Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 361 - 373 |
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| Formato: | questionnaire/scale research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2010
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