ArticlePloS one2013
Validation of the French version of the World Health Organization quality of life HIV instrument.
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- HIV-Specific Reported Outcome Measures: Systematic Review of Psychometric Properties.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2022Pooled it
- Psychometric properties of self-reported measures of health-related quality of life in people living with HIV: a systematic review.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2022Pooled it
- Instruments for Assessing Spirituality in Patients with Chronic or Advanced Illnesses: A Systematic Review of the Last 15 Years.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Development of a health-related questionnaire for quality-of-life assessment in dogs with chronic enteropathy.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2026Article
- Effect of Depression on Quality of Life among Women Living with HIV in Gondar Town, Northwest, Ethiopia, Prospective Cohort Study.AIDS and behavior · 2025Article
- Turkish Translation and Cross-Cultural Validity of WHOQOL-HIV Bref Tool.Current HIV research · 2024Article
- A comprehensive analysis of excess depressive disorder in women and men living with HIV in France compared to the general population.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Translation and cross-cultural adaptation of WHOQOL-HIV Bref among people living with HIV/AIDS in Pakistan.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2021Article
- Psychometric properties of the critical thinking disposition assessment test amongst medical students in China: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical education · 2021Article
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- Assessing the psychometric properties of the French WHOQOL-HIV BREF within the ANRS CO3 Aquitaine Cohort's QuAliV ancillary study.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2020Article
- Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Igbo language version of the stroke-specific quality of life scale 2.0.The Pan African medical journal · 2020Article
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- Adaptation and validation of the short version WHOQOL-HIV in Ethiopia.International journal of mental health systems · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeQuality of life is a key element in the follow-up of people living with HIV/AIDS. The main purpose of this study was to validate the French version of the WHOQOL-HIV instrument by comparing this instrument to a generic questionnaire. The second objective was to test the reproducibility of this questionnaire.
methodThe WHOQOL-HIV and SF-36 questionnaires were filled out by 50 patients on two separate occasions with a time interval of 2 weeks. The internal consistency, validity and reliability of the WHOQOL-HIV were evaluated.
resultsThe internal consistency was acceptable for the different domains, with Cronbach's alpha ranging from 0.937 to 0.944. The facet-domain correlations were all statistically significant (p<0.001). There was a correlation between the domains from the WHOQOL-HIV and SF-36 questionnaires, with coefficients ranging from 0.349 to 0.763 (p<0.05 for all), except for the Spirituality domain. The test-retest reliability was suitable for all domains and facets, with statistically significant intra-class coefficients between 0.615 and 0.931.
conclusionThis study demonstrated that the French translation of the WHOQOL-HIV instrument is a valid and reproducible tool for the evaluation of the quality of life for HIV-infected patients.
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