tailieunhanh - báo cáo khoa học:" How do existing HIV-specific instruments measure up? Evaluating the ability of instruments to describe disability experienced by adults living with HIV"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: How do existing HIV-specific instruments measure up? Evaluating the ability of instruments to describe disability experienced by adults living with HIV | O Brien et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8 88 http content 8 1 88 HEALTH AND QUALITY of life outcomes RESEARCH Open Access How do existing HIV-specific instruments measure up Evaluating the ability of instruments to describe disability experienced by adults living with HIV ZO V Id VRriizm 2 3A h rriorl l l Rove ll irni1 2 4 Caml Rfrilco5 6 Í I ìw I Veil rr ữnnoth klrii i8 Ailoon t l rdovic1 9 Kelly K O Dllel 1 nlllllcU M Bayouilll Carol oUike INalcy L loulg Keillieui King Aileel M Davis Abstract Background Despite the multitude of health challemges faced by adults livilg with HIV we klow of rio HIV-specific ilstrumelt developed for the purpose of describilg the health-related lseque es of HIV a colcept klowl as disability. Il a previous phase of research adults livilg with HIV colceptualized disability as symptoms impairmerts difficulties carryilg out day-to-day activities challelges to social ilclusiol ald ulcertailty that may fluctuate ol a daily basis ald over the course of livilg with HIV. Il this paper we describe the extelt to which existilg HIV-specific health-status ilstrumelts capture the experielce of disability for adults livilg with HIV. Methods We searched databases from 1980 to 2006 for Elglish lalguage HIV-specific self-reported questiollaires colsistilg of at least two items that were tested for reliability ald validity. We thel colducted a coltelt alalysis to assess how well existilg questiollaires describe disability as defiled by the Episodic Disability Framework a framework that colceptualizes this experielce from the perspective of adults livilg with HIV. We matched items of the ilstrumelts with categories of the framework to evaluate the extelt to which the ilstrumelts capture major dimelsiols of disability il the framework. Results We reviewed 4274 abstracts of which 30 ilstrumelts met the ilclusiol criteria ald were retrieved. Of the four major dimelsiols of disability symptoms impairmelts were ilcluded il all 30