This self-administered depression screener was developed for RAND’s Partners in Care study. The screener included the items for assessing major depressive and dysthymic disorders from the 12-month Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) and items assessing depression symptoms in the past month. The parent CIDI items were developed by Dr. Gavin Andrews with support from the National Institute of Mental Health and the World Health Organization.
The SF-36 is a multi-purpose, short-form health survey with only 36 questions. It is a generic measure, as opposed to one that targets a specific age, disease, or treatment group. Accordingly, the SF-36 has proven useful in surveys of general and specific populations, comparing the relative burden of diseases, and in differentiating the health benefits produced by a wide range of different treatments.
The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) project was initiated in 1991. WHOQOL-BREF was developed from the WHOQOL-100 at the same time as the WHOQOL-100. The WHOQOL BREF consists of 26 items, which measure the following broad domains: physical health, psychological health, social relationships, and environments. This version has been translated into approximately 19 different languages.
The FACIT Measurement System is a collection of QOL questionnaires targeted to the management of chronic illness. “FACIT” (Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy) was adopted as the formal name of the measurement system in 1997 to portray the expansion of the more familiar “FACT” (Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy) series of questionnaires into other chronic illnesses and conditions.
This scale measures perceptions of neighborhood. This survey asks questions related to current living situation and problems that sometimes occur in neighborhoods.
This scale measures for people living with HIV using the Medical Outcomes Study HIV Health Survey (MOS-HIV) instrument (Ichikawa, 2004; Wu, 1997). Three subscales from the MOS-HIV (general health, mental health, and physical health) were used in this study. Revicki, D.A., Sorensen, S., Wu, A.W. (1998). Reliability and validity of physical health and mental health summary scores from the MOS HIV Health Survey. Med Care, 36, 126–137.
This scale measures HIV-related stigma, adapted from scales that were developed, based on the work of Herek and Capitanio (1993), and validated by the Thai investigators in the Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Thailand (Apinundecha, et al., 2007). After conducting exploratory factor analysis, we identified two factors that were conceptually identified as Perceived Stigma and Internalized Shame.
This scale captured quality of life, measured using the Thai version of the short form (26 items) of the WHO Quality of Life questionnaire (Thai Department of Mental Health, 1998, WHO, 2004). Thai Department of Mental Health. (1998). WHOQOL – BREF –THAI, Ministry of Public Health, Thailand. Available at: http://www.dmh.go.th/test/whoqol/. Accessed May 12, 2008.