Vincent Wilson, Siconolfi Daniel E, Pollack Lance, Campbell Chadwick K, Kegeles Susan M, Storholm Erik D
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Temple University, Weiss Hall, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, USA.
RAND Corporation, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
AIDS Behav. 2024 Apr;28(4):1423-1434. doi: 10.1007/s10461-023-04229-3. Epub 2023 Dec 27.
We evaluated the psychometric properties of a measure consisting of items that assess current HIV care continuum engagement based on established definitions in the United States. At baseline, participants in this longitudinal study, which included three time points from 2015 to 2020, were 331 young Black sexual minority men ages 18-29 living with HIV in the southern United States residing in two large southern cities. Self-report items reflected four aspects of HIV care continuum engagement as binary variables: seeing a healthcare provider for HIV care, being on antiretroviral treatment, being retained in HIV care, and being virally suppressed. Of these, the following three variables loaded onto a single factor in exploratory factor analysis: being on antiretroviral treatment, being retained in HIV care, and being virally suppressed. A one-dimensional factor structure was confirmed using confirmatory factor analyses at separate time points. Additionally, the three items collectively showed measurement invariance by age, education level, employment status, and income level. The three-item measure also showed reliability based on coefficient omega and convergent validity in its associations with indicators of socioeconomic distress, depression, resilience, and healthcare empowerment. In sum, the items performed well as a single scale. The study demonstrated the potential psychometric strength of simple, feasible, commonly administered items assessing engagement in the HIV care continuum.
我们评估了一项测量工具的心理测量特性,该测量工具包含一些根据美国既定定义来评估当前HIV护理连续过程参与情况的条目。在基线时,这项纵向研究的参与者为331名年龄在18至29岁之间、感染HIV的年轻黑人性少数男性,他们生活在美国南部,居住在两个南部大城市,研究涵盖了2015年至2020年的三个时间点。自我报告条目将HIV护理连续过程参与情况的四个方面反映为二元变量:因HIV护理而就诊于医疗服务提供者、接受抗逆转录病毒治疗、持续接受HIV护理以及病毒得到抑制。在探索性因素分析中,其中以下三个变量加载到一个单一因素上:接受抗逆转录病毒治疗、持续接受HIV护理以及病毒得到抑制。在不同时间点使用验证性因素分析确认了一维因素结构。此外,这三个条目在年龄、教育水平、就业状况和收入水平方面共同显示出测量不变性。基于欧米伽系数,这三个条目的测量工具还显示出可靠性,并且在与社会经济困境、抑郁、心理韧性和医疗赋权指标的关联中具有收敛效度。总之,这些条目作为一个单一量表表现良好。该研究证明了简单、可行、常用的条目在评估HIV护理连续过程参与情况方面潜在的心理测量优势。
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