Journal article
Validation of a Swahili version of the World Health Organization 5-item well-being index among adults living with HIV and epilepsy in rural coastal Kenya
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Objective
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the World Health Organization’s five item well-being index (WHO-5) when administered to adults living with HIV or epilepsy in a rural setting at the coast of Kenya.
Methods
A case control study design was conducted among 230 adults aged 18–50 years, who comprised 147 cases (63 living with epilepsy and 84 living with HIV) and 83 healthy controls. The participants were administered to...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Funding
European Union
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Department for International Development
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Global Health Research and Policy Journal website
- Volume:
- 3
- Pages:
- 26
- Publication date:
- 2018-09-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-08-21
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2397-0642
- Pmid:
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30214943
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:921792
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uuid:c62a0723-9e0b-4ac9-bce9-e2de266009b0
- Local pid:
- pubs:921792
- Source identifiers:
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921792
- Deposit date:
- 2018-10-02
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- Copyright holder:
- Chongwo et al
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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