Journal article
A mixed methods approach to adapting and evaluating the functional assessment of HIV infection (FAHI), Swahili version, for use with low literacy populations.
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Background
Despite bearing the largest HIV-related burden, little is known of the Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) among people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. One of the factors contributing to this gap in knowledge is the lack of culturally adapted and validated measures of HRQoL that are relevant for this setting.
Aims
We set out to adapt the Functional Assessment of HIV Infection (FAHI) Questionnaire, an HIV-specific measure of HRQoL, and evaluate...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1371/journal.pone.0175021
Funding
International Union of Psychological Science
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International Congress of Psychology 2012
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National Research Council
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Jacobs Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLoS One Journal website
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- e0175021
- Publication date:
- 2017-04-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-03-17
- DOI:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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28380073
- Source identifiers:
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689110
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- English
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pubs:689110
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- pubs:689110
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Nyongesa et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © 2017 Nyongesa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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