title: Assessing the Perceived Stress Scale for African American adults with asthma and low literacy.
abstract: The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a widely used measure of stress that has not been validated in asthma patients. The psychometric properties of the PSS were explored using confirmatory factor analysis and item response theory. Study 1 involved 312 ambulatory care patients with asthma who completed the PSS during a routine visit. Study 2 involved 247 community-dwelling adults with asthma who completed the PSS as a part of a larger asthma study. Four items showed acceptable psychometric performance across ethnic groups and literacy. The short PSS is a rapid, valid measure of subjective stress in diverse asthma populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Section of Health Promotion Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA. sharpl@uic.edu
authors.forename: Lisa K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Sharp
authors.forename: Linda G
authors.initials: LG
authors.lastname: Kimmel
authors.forename: Romina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kee
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Saltoun
authors.forename: Chih-Hung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D000368:Aged; D000554:Ambulatory Care Facilities; D001249:Asthma / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology*; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000379:methods; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000175:diagnosis*