Sexual risk behaviors of patients with HIV/AIDS over the course of antiretroviral treatment in Northern Vietnam

10.3390/ijerph15061106International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health1561-1

Demand and willingness to pay for different treatment and care services among patients with heart diseases in Hanoi, Vietnam

10.2147/PPA.S176262Patient Preference and Adherence122253-226

Evidence of internal structure of the transactional eHealth literacy among Vietnamese youth: An instrument validation study

BackgroundThe progression into the Digital Age has brought an array of novel skill requirements. Unlike traditional literacy, there are currently few measures that can reliably measure eHealth literacy. The Transactional Model of eHealth Literacy and subsequent Transactional eHealth Literacy Instrument may provide a feasible option for measuring eHealth literacy. ObjectiveThis instrument has yet to be validated, which is the aim of this study. In particular, this article was conducted to validate the TeHLI to see which components of the tool (how many and which components included) would be the best fit statistically and whether the tool applies to groups of different characteristics. MethodsWe conducted an online cross-sectional study among 236 Vietnamese young people. A exploratory factor analysis was used to identify the best fit model of the Transactional eHealth Literacy Instrument. A confirmatory factor analysis tested measurement invariance at four levels: configural, metric, scalar, and strict invariance. Only metric invariance was partially invariant, while the rest tested fully invariant. Even with partial metric invariance, there is reason to assume that functional, communicative, critical, and translational eHealth literacy (the four levels according to the transactional model) are consistently measured when deploying the Transactional eHealth Literacy Instrument across groups. ResultsThe study findings substantiate that the most optimal composition of the TeHLI consists of four factors: functional, communicative, critical, and translational eHealth literacy, with RMSEA = 0.116; CFI = 0.907, and the highest internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha = 0.91, 0.92, 0.88, and 0.92 for each factor respectively). After using measurement invariance, that gender, education, marital status, age, location, and household economy do not influence the way participants to respond to the TeHLI to the point that would introduce measurement bias. In other word, using TeHLI across population groups should not produce error margins that substantially differ from each other. ConclusionsThis study suggests the instrument can be used for comparisons across groups and has the potential to generate high-quality data usable for informing change agents as to whether a particular population is proficient enough to adopt novel eHealth innovations

HIV knowledge and risk behaviors among drug users in three Vietnamese mountainous provinces

10.1186/s13011-019-0191-8Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy141

Methadone maintenance treatment reduces the vulnerability of drug users on hiv/aids in vietnamese remote settings: Assessing the changes in hiv knowledge, perceived risk, and testing uptake after a 12-month follow-up

10.3390/ijerph15112567International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health1511256

Alcohol and tobacco use among methadone maintenance patients in Vietnamese rural mountainside areas

10.1016/j.abrep.2017.11.005Addictive Behaviors Reports719-2

Changes in quality of life and its associated factors among illicit drug users in Vietnamese mountainous provinces: A 12-month follow-up study

10.1186/s13011-020-00265-7Substance Abuse: Treatment, Prevention, and Policy1512

AsiFood and its output and prospects: An Erasmus+ project on capacity building in food safety and quality for South-East Asia

Erasmus +, 561630-EPP-1-2015-1-FR-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP, ASIFOOD : Universities as key partners for the new challenges regarding food safety & quality in ASEA

Changes in substance abuse and HIV risk behaviors over 12-month methadone maintenance treatment among vietnamese patients in mountainous provinces

10.3390/ijerph16132422International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health1613242