title: Cultural adaptation of the Brief COPE for persons living with HIV/AIDS in southern India.
abstract: Physical and psychological stressors of HIV infection demand adequate coping responses from persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLHA) and coping strategies may vary by cultural context. The Brief COPE is a well validated scale that has been used extensively to assess coping with cancer, depression, and HIV infection in other settings, but never in India. In this study we translated and validated the 28 item Brief COPE among 299 PLHA in South India, assessing reliability, validity, and cultural appropriateness. Although the original scale demonstrated acceptable internal consistency (alpha = 0.70) and good convergent validity with depression, the test-retest reliability was marginal (test-retest = 0.6) and the original factor structure demonstrated poor fit in a confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). An exploratory factor analysis yielded a 16 item scale with five factors (active planning, social support, avoidant emotions, substance use, religion). A second CFA demonstrated good model fit and acceptable reliability (alpha = 0.61) of the adapted scale.
authors.affiliation: Samarth, Chennai, India.
authors.forename: Rani
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mohanraj
authors.forename: Visalakshi
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Jeyaseelan
authors.forename: Shuba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Thenmozhi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mani
authors.forename: Deepa
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Rao
authors.forename: Katherine R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Murray
authors.forename: Lisa E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Manhart
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003469:Culture; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012944:Social Support; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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