Developing a short-form version of the HIV Disability Questionnaire (SF-HDQ) for use in clinical practice: a Rasch analysis

Table 1 Characteristics of participants by country

Characteristic	Canada (n = 941)	Ireland (n = 96)
Characteristic	Number (%)	Number (%)
Gender
Men	740 (79%)	71 (74%)
Women	159 (17%)	23 (24%)
Transgender	19 (2%)	2 (2%)
Two-spirited	15 (2%)	–
Missing	8 (1%)	–
Median age in years (25–75th percentile)	48 (39–54)	41 (34–48)
50 years or older	405 (43%)	22 (23%)
Median time since HIV diagnosis in years (25–75th percentile)	13 (6–21)	9 (4–14)
Taking antiretroviral therapy	851 (90%)	84 (88%)
Undetectable viral load (< 40 copies/mL)^b	572 (67%)	41 (85%)
Employment status (full-time or part-time)	350 (37%)	52 (54%)
Median number of concurrent health conditions (25–75th percentile)	3 (1–6)	1 (0–3)
Living with ≥ 2 concurrent health conditions in addition to HIV	518 (72%)	39 (41%)
Common concurrent health conditions^a
Mental health condition	392 (42%)	18 (19%)
Muscle pain	308 (33%)	21 (22%)
Joint pain	282 (30%)	22 (23%)
Addiction	248 (26%)	9 (9%)
Neurocognitive decline	209 (22%)	11 (12%)
Hepatitis C^c	95 (10%)	21 (22%)
Self-rated health status ‘very good’	274 (29%)	34 (35%)

Number of participants: n = 1037; Not all characteristics add to the total n due to missing responses
^aConcurrent health conditions experienced by ≥ 20% of respondents in either sample
^bBased on number of participants who confirmed they were taking antiretroviral therapy; out of 851 (Canadian) and 48 (Irish) samples respectively. Among Canadian sample, 44 (5%) could not remember or did not know their viral load
^cIrish sample recruited from an HIV-Hep-C co-infection clinic

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