Rani Mohanraj|Visalakshi Jeyaseelan|Shuba Kumar|Thenmozhi Mani|Deepa Rao|Kate Murray|Lisa E. Manhart
Cultural Adaptation of the Brief COPE for Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Southern India
Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music|Christian Medical College & Hospital|Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music|Christian Medical College & Hospital|University of Washington|University of Washington|University of Washington
physical psychological stressors hiv infection demand adequate coping responses persons living hivaids plha coping strategies may vary cultural context brief cope well validated scale used extensively assess coping cancer depression hiv infection settings never india study translated validated 28 item brief cope among 299 plha south india assessing reliability validity cultural appropriateness although original scale demonstrated acceptable internal consistency alpha 070 good convergent validity depression testretest reliability marginal testretest 06 original factor structure demonstrated poor fit confirmatory factor analysis cfa exploratory factor analysis yielded 16 item scale five factors active planning social support avoidant emotions substance use religion second cfa demonstrated good model fit acceptable reliability alpha 061 adapted scale