WHOQOL-HIV for quality of life assessment among people living with HIV and AIDS: Results from the field test

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

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 882-889

  Saxena, Shekhar ^a  

^a WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; DEATH; DYING; FEAR; FEMALE; GUILT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 4944256108     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540120412331290194     Document Type: Article

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