title: An overview of generic health-related quality of life measures for HIV research.
abstract: This paper provides a selective review of instruments currently being employed to evaluate generic health-related quality of life in studies of persons with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Instruments examined include the Quality of Well-Being Scale, the HIV Overview of Problems/Evaluation System, the COOP Charts, and six Medical Outcomes Study-based measures: the SF-20, SF-30, AIDS-HAQ, SF-36, SF-38 and SF-56. Relative strengths and weaknesses of the measures are discussed.
authors.affiliation: RAND, Social Policy Department, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Hays
authors.forename: M F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Shapiro
mesh_terms: D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires / Q000592:standards*; D013997:Time Factors