Comparing measures of contact with clients with HIV/AIDS

Contact with patients or clients with HIV/AIDS may be measured in a number of different ways. Three measures of contact with clients with HIV/AIDS were derived from the 15-item contact scale developed by Pleck et al. (1988): an overall or global measure, and measures of the extent to which contact w...

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