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Table 2 Methodological quality assessment of the HIV-specific instruments

From: Psychometric properties of self-reported measures of health-related quality of life in people living with HIV: a systematic review

References

PROM

Measurement property: methodological quality per study

PROM development

Relevance

Comprehensiveness

Comprehensibility

Construct validity

Internal consistency

Cross‐cultural validity\measurement invariance

Criterion validity

Reliability

Hypothesis testing for construct validity

Responsiveness

Ahmed e t al [56]

WHOQOL-HIV-BREF Urdu version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Inadequate

Very good

NR

NR

Doubtful

Very good

NR

Connell and Skevington [51]

WHOQOL-HIV-BREF

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Very good

NR

Very good

NR

Very good

NR

De Boer et al. [14]

HOPES Dutch and English versions

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Inadequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Duracinsky et al. [12]

PROQoL-HIV English, Brazilian, Cambodia, Chinese, French, Senegalese, and Thai versions

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

NR

Very good

Doubtful

Very good

NR

Herrmann et al. [71]

PROQoL-HIV

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

NR

Doubtful

NR

NR

Holmes and Shea [16]

HAT-QoL

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

Holmes and Shea [76]

HAT-QoL

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Hsiung et al. [57]

WHOQOL-HIV-BREF Chinese version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Very good

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Hughes et al. [35]

MOS-HIV

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Inadequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Kemmler et al. [10]

MQoL-HIV German version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Adequate

Very good

Doubtful

Inadequate

Very good

Very good

NR

Lau et al. [36]

MOS-HIV Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

NR

Very good

NR

Very good

NR

Leplège et al. [11]

HIV-QL31 French version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Inadequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

Liu et al. [37]

MOS-HIV Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

Doubtful

Very good

NR

Mast et al. [41]

MOS-HIV Ugandan version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

NR

NR

McDonneet al. [42]

MOS-HIV

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Meemon et al. [50]

WHOQOL-HIV-BREF Thai version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Paton et al. [43]

MOS-HIV

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Pereira et al. [52]

WHOQOL-HIV-Bref Portuguese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Peterman et al. [15]

FAHI

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Inadequate

Doubtful

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Remple et al. [66]

MQoL-HIV

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

NR

Very good

NR

NR

Doubtful

Very good

NR

Reychler et al. [48]

WHOQOL-HIV French version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Inadequate

Inadequate

NR

NR

Doubtful

Very good

NR

Salehi et al. [53]

WHOQOL-HIV-BREF Persian version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Inadequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

Schifano et al. [44]

MOS-HIV Italian version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Shim et al. [45]

MOS-HIV Korean version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Smith et al. [67]

MQoL-HIV

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Adequate

Very good

Adequate

NR

Adequate

NR

NR

Stangl et al. [46]

MOS-HIV Ugandan version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Adequate

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

Inadequate

NR

Starce et al. [49]

WHOQOL-HIV Italian version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Inadequate

Very good

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

NR

Stasinopouiou et al. [34]

MOS-HIV Greek version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

NR

NR

Taylor et al. [47]

HAT-QoL Shona version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Inadequate

Very good

Inadequate

NR

NR

Inadequate

NR

Taylor et al. [47]

MOS-HIV Shona version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Inadequate

Very good

Inadequate

NR

NR

Inadequate

NR

Tesfaye et al. [54]

WHOQOL-HIV-BREF Ethiopian version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Tran [55]

WHOQOL-HIV-BREF Vietnamese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Watanabe et al. [68]

MQoL-HIV Japanese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Very good

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

WHOQOL-HIV Group [13]

WHOQOL-HIV

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Very good

NR

Very good

NR

Wu et al. [21]

MOS-HIV

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Inadequate

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Zhu et al. [58]

WHOQOL HLV BREF Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Very good

NR

NR

Very good

Very good

NR

Cai et al. [59]

WHOQOL HLV BREF Chinese version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Adequate

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Chen et al. [60]

WHOQOL HLV BREF Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Inadequate

Inadequate

NR

NR

Inadequate

NR

NR

Dong et al. [38]

MOS—HIV Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

Guo et al. [82]

HIV QoL Scale-4

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Inadequate

NR

NR

Very good

NR

NR

Liu et al. [62]

WHOQOL Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Doubtful

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

Luo et al. [61]

WHOQOL-HIV-BREF Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Inadequate

NR

NR

Very good

NR

NR

Meng et al. [80]

HIV QoL Scale-2

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Inadequate

NR

Very good

Very good

Very good

NR

Su et al. [81]

HIV QoL Scale-3

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Very good

Inadequate

NR

NR

Very good

NR

NR

Xiang et al. [77,78,79]

HIV QoL Scale-1

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Adequate

Inadequate

Doubtful

Very good

Very good

Very good

NR

Yang et al. [39]

MOS –HIV Chinese version

Inadequate

Doubtful

Doubtful

Doubtful

Adequate

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

NR

NR

Yu et al. [40]

MOS-HIV Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Adequate

Inadequate

NR

NR

Very good

NR

NR

Zhang et al. [17]

HIV/AIDSQoL-46 Chinese version

Inadequate

NR

NR

NR

Very good

Inadequate

NR

NR

Very good

NR

Very good

  1. FAHI, Functional Assessment of HIV Infection; HAT-QoL, HIV/AIDS Targeted Quality of Life; HIV-QL31, HIV Disease Quality of Life 31-Item Instrument; HIV/AIDSQoL, HIV/AIDS Quality of Life Questionnaire; HOPES, HIV Overview of Problems Evaluation Scale; MQoL-HIV, Multidimensional Quality of Life Questionnaire for Persons with HIV/AIDS; MOS-HIV, Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey; NR, not reported; PROM, Patient-reported outcome measure; PROQoL-HIV, Patient-Reported Outcomes Quality of Life-HIV instrument; WHOQoL-HIV, World Health Organization's Quality of Life Instrument in HIV Infection; WHOQoL-HIV-BREF, The brief version of the World Health Organization's Quality of Life Instrument in HIV Infection