Reliability and validty of an HIV-specific health-related quality-of-life measure for use with injecting drug users

AIDS

Volumn 10, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 1699-1705

  Carretero, Maria D ^a,b   Burgess, Adrian P ^a   Soler, Pilar ^b   Soler, Miguel ^b   Catalán, José ^a  

^a CHELSEA AND WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

HIV infection; Injecting drug users; Quality of life; Reliability validity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BISEXUALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMOSEXUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RELIABILITY; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ADULT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS;

EID: 0029658321     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002030-199612000-00015     Document Type: Article

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