Comparison of Turkish version of the medical outcomes study‐HIV health survey with short form health survey‐36 in people living with human immunodeficiency virus

Background/aim Several questionnaires have been developed to evaluate the quality of life (QoL) for people living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The aim of this study was to compare Turkish version of the Medical Outcomes Study‐HIV Health Survey (MOS‐HIV) with Short Form Health Survey (SF‐36) in people with HIV. Patients and methods A hundred and 14 patients with HIV were consecutively included. The MOS‐HIV and SF‐36 questionnaires were applied to all patients at the same day. MOS HIV included 35 items and assessed general health perceptions (GH), physical functioning (PF), social functioning (SF), mental health (MH), bodily pain (P), cognitive functioning, health distress, overall QoL, health transition, role functioning (RF), energy/vitality (EV), physical (Physical health summary score) and mental (MHSS) health summary scores. SF‐36 included 36 items and measured eight domains of health concepts including SF, PF, P, RF, GH, role emotional, vitality (V) and MH. Correlation analysis and Bland‐ Altman plots were used to compare the MOS‐HIV and SF‐36 questionnaires. Results GH, PF, P, RF, EV, SF, and MH domains of the MOS‐HIV were significantly correlated with those of SF 36. The agreement between the tests were 91.2% for PF, 92.1% for RF and pain, 94.7% for GH, 95.6% for EV, 92.1% for SF and 93.9% for MH. Conclusion Turkish version of the MOS HIV showed moderate correlations and agreement with SF 36 suggesting its use as an alternative to SF 36 in assessing QoL in these patients.