Reliability and validity of dermatology life quality index: assessment of quality of life in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients with pruritic papular eruption

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  • Department of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Treatment and Research Center, the First Affiliat-ed Hospital of Henan University ofTraditional Chinese Medi-cine;Key Laboratory of Viral Dis-eases Prevention andTreatment ofTraditional Chinese Medi-cine of Henan Province;Department of Acquired Im-mune Deficiency Syndrome Treatment and Research Center,the First Affiliated Hospital of Henan University of Tradition-al Chinese Medicine;

Accepted date: 2013-10-15

  Online published: 2013-10-15

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To test the reliability and validity of dermatology life quality index(DLQI) in simplified Chinese language by assessing the quality of life(QoL) in HIV(human immunodeficiency virus)/AIDS(Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) patients with pruritic papular eruption(PPE). METHODS: A study of simplified-Chinese-versiond from10 questions with the principal component analysis and the contribution rate of the 3 common factors was 59.95%. CONCLUSION: The simplified-Chinese-version DIQL is an acceptable and valid scale for HIV/AIDS patients with PPE. It can be used to evaluate the QoL of HIV/AIDS patients with PPE in China.

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Zhibin Liu, Zheng Xie, Li Zhang, Yantao Jin, Huijun Guo, Ziqiang Jiang, Xiumin Chen, Jun Yuan . Reliability and validity of dermatology life quality index: assessment of quality of life in human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome patients with pruritic papular eruption[J]. Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2013 , 33(05) : 580 -583 . DOI: 10.1016/s0254-6272(14)60024-8

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