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Studies

Thompson et al. (2015): study US San Francisco, California 2010

Publication

Author(s):
Thompson, H.M.; Fisher Raymond, H.; Reisner, S.L.; VanKim, N.
Title:
Quality-of-Life Measurement: Assessing the WHOQOL-BREF Scale in a Sample of High-HIV-Risk Transgender Women in San Francisco, California
Source:
International Journal of Transgenderism, 16:36-48

Investigation

Public
Transgender women with high HIV risk, San Fransisco, USA, 2010
Survey name
TEACH study: Transfemales Empowering and Advancing Community Health
Sample
Non-probability snowball sample
Respondents
N = 312
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: Computer Assisted Personal Interview (CAPI)

Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings

Full text:
Self report on single question:

The following questions ask about how satisfied you have felt about various aspects of your life over the last 2 weeks..

How would you rate your overall quality of life?
1  very poor
2  poor
3  neither poor nor good
4  good
5  very good

Item 81 (G1) in WHOQOL-100. Item 1 in WHOQOL-Bref

In Bref variant not preceded with timeframe ''past 2 weeks'
Classification:
O-QOL-cw-sq-v-5-b
Author's label:
Overall quality of life
Remarks:
Transformation to scale 0-10 by WDH team using linear stretch
Page in publication:
42
Observed distribution
Summary Statistics
On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
Mean:
3.69 6.73
SD:
1.03 2.57

Correlational Findings

Author's label Subject Description Finding Overall health Satisfaction with health QOL Domain physical health Health domain self-ratings QOL Domain psychological health Multiple aspect evaluations of life
Self rating of current positive mental health
QOL Domain social Satisfaction with intimate bonds Domain Environmental Multiple aspect evaluations of life