Markos Tesfaye|Mette Frahm Olsen|Girmay Medhin|Henrik Friis|Charlotte Hanlon|Lotte Holm
Adaptation and validation of the short version WHOQOL-HIV in Ethiopia
Jimma University|University of Copenhagen|Addis Ababa University|University of Copenhagen|Addis Ababa University|University of Copenhagen
quality life patients important element evaluation outcome health care social services clinical trials whoqol instruments originally developed measurement quality life across cultures however concerns raised crosscultural equivalence whoqolhiv used among people hiv ethiopia therefore study aimed adapting whoqolhiv bref ethiopian settinga stepwise adaptation whoqolhiv bref use ethiopia conducted produce ethiopian versionwhoqolhivbrefeth semantic item equivalence tested 20 people hiv one hundred people hiv interviewed test measurement equivalence known group validity internal consistency whoqolhivbrefeth confirmatory factor analysis conducted using data 348 people hiv recruited hiv clinicsin process adaptation new items relevance context added seven items deleted problems acceptability poor psychometric properties cronbachs final tool twentyseven items whoqolhivbrefeth 093 six domains discriminated well symptomatic asymptomatic people hiv p 0001 using confirmatory factor analysis second order factor structure six first order indicator factors demonstrated moderate fit data 2 62775 df 259 p 0001 cfi 082 tli 077 rmsea 0064the whoqolhivbrefeth shown valid measure quality life use clinical settings among people hiv ethiopia