Developing a valid and reliable instrument to predict the protective sexual behaviors in women at risk of human immunodeficiency virus

Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2014, Pages

  Lotfi, Razieh ^a,b   Tehrani, Fahimeh Ramezani ^c   Yaghmaei, Farideh ^d   Hajizadeh, Ebrahim ^e  

^a ALBORZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ALBORZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e TARBIAT MODARES UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Questionnaires; Vulnerable Populations; Women

Indexed keywords

CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTENT VALIDITY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRONBACH ALPHA COEFFICIENT; EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INSTRUMENT VALIDATION; INTERVIEW; IRAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITATIVE VALIDITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

EID: 85006380173     PISSN: 20741804     EISSN: 20741812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5812/ircmj.14682     Document Type: Article

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