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Development and validation of a voice-of-the-patient measure of cognitive concerns experienced by people living with HIV
Gepubliceerd in: Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 3/2021
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Purpose
People living with HIV may experience some degree of mild cognitive impairment. They are best placed to report on their cognitive symptoms, but no HIV-specific questionnaire exists to elicit these concerns. This study aimed to validate a set of items to form a measure
Methods
48 items were tested on an initial sample of 204 people with HIV. Rasch analysis was used to identify those that fit a hierarchical continuum. The hierarchy was validated on a new sample of 703 people with HIV and a sample of 484 people without HIV.
Results
18 items fit the model and formed the Communicating Cognitive Concerns Questionnaire (C3Q). The items spanned the full range of cognitive ability, distinguished between people working and not working, and correlated with other self-report outcomes such as mental health (0.56) and work productivity (0.60), although showed a low correlation with cognitive test performance.
Conclusion
The C3Q is the first questionnaire specifically developed for use among people with HIV. While not strongly associated with cognitive test performance, it reflects real-life concerns of people and is associated with mood, work, and work productivity. It is a needed step in assessing cognition in this population.