Initial steps to developing the World Health Organization's Quality of Life instrument (WHOQOL) module for international assessment in HIV/AIDS

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 347-357

  Saxena, Shekhar ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BODY IMAGE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEATH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOM; WORK; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0037667860     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0954012031000105405     Document Type: Article

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