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Development and Evaluation of Short-Form Measures of the HIV/AIDS Knowledge Assessment Tool Among Sexual and Gender Minorities in Brazil: Cross-sectional Study.

Rayanne C FerreiraThiago Silva TorresMaria das Graças Braga CeccatoDaniel Rodrigues Barros BezerraBrett D ThombsPaula Mendes LuzDaphna Harel
Published in: JMIR public health and surveillance (2022)
OTA methods were used to shorten the 12-item HIV-KA to 9-item and 10-item versions while maintaining comparable reliability and validity among a large sample of Brazilian SGM. However, these short forms did not shorten sufficiently to justify deviation from the full measure.
Keyphrases
  • hiv aids
  • antiretroviral therapy
  • psychometric properties
  • human immunodeficiency virus
  • hiv infected
  • hiv positive
  • mental health
  • healthcare
  • hepatitis c virus
  • hiv testing
  • men who have sex with men