Research Article
Use of Cognitive Interviews to Adapt PROMIS Measurement Items for Spanish Speakers Living with HIV
Table 1
Characteristics of the participant population for the first round of cognitive interviews.
| Characteristics | Depression domain () | Anxiety domain () | Fatigue domain () | Alcohol Use domain () | Total () |
| Gender | | | | | | Male | 10 (77%) | 6 (67%) | 11 (73%) | 14 (74%) | 41 (73%) | Female | 3 (23%) | 3 (33%) | 4 (27%) | 5 (26%) | 15 (27%) | Place of birth | | | | | | US | 1 (8%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (11%) | 3 (5%) | Mexico | 9 (69%) | 7 (78%) | 0 (0%) | 17 (89%) | 33 (59%) | Other | 3 (23%) | 2 (22%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (9%) | Unknown | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 15 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 15 (27%) | Age (yrs) | | | | | | 18–29 | 0 (0%) | 1 (11%) | 1 (7%) | 5 (26%) | 7 (13%) | 30–39 | 1 (8%) | 2 (22%) | 1 (7%) | 4 (21%) | 8 (14%) | 40–49 | 7 (54%) | 3 (33%) | 8 (53%) | 10 (53%) | 28 (50%) | 50–59 | 3 (23%) | 3 (33%) | 2 (13%) | 0 (0%) | 8 (14%) | ≥60 | 2 (15%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (20%) | 0 (0%) | 5 (9%) | Most recent CD-4 Cell count (mm3) | | | | | | 0–199 | 4 (31%) | 2 (22%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (5%) | 7 (13%) | 200–349 | 5 (38%) | 2 (22%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (5%) | 8 (14%) | ≥350 | 4 (31%) | 5 (56%) | 15 (100%) | 14 (74%) | 38 (68%) | Unknown | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (16%) | 3 (5%) | Time since HIV Diagnosis (yrs) | | | | | | 0–9 | 4 (31%) | 2 (22%) | 3 (20%) | 11 (58%) | 20 (36%) | 10–19 | 7 (54%) | 5 (56%) | 10 (67%) | 6 (32%) | 28 (50%) | 20–30 | 2 (15%) | 1 (11%) | 2 (13%) | 1 (5%) | 6 (11%) | Unknown | 0 (0%) | 1 (11%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (5%) | 2 (4%) | HIV transmission risk factor | | | | | | MSM1 | 7 (54%) | 5 (56%) | 10 (67%) | 8 (42%) | 30 (54%) | IVDU2 | 0 (0%) | 1 (11%) | 2 (13%) | 0 (0%) | 3 (5%) | Heterosexual | 4 (31%) | 3 (33%) | 3 (20%) | 2 (11%) | 12 (21%) | Other | 2 (16%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 2 (4%) | Unknown | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 9 (47%) | 9 (16%) |
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MSM: defined as men who have sex with men. 2IVDU: defined as intravenous drug user.
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