E-Module (SSA)

SECTION 5.8.4:
Fatique

Measure
(Authors, Year)
Generic vs Specific and Purpose Administration, Number of Items and Number of Domains Measurement Properties Access
HIV Fatigue Scale 42

HIV-specific

Descriptive

Self-reported questionnaire

56 items

3 domains

Reliability:High internal consistency reliability. Cronbach's alpha was >0.90 on all domains) among people living with HIV-related fatigue. Cronbach's alpha for the entire tool was 0.94. Test-retest reliability was moderate with a correlation coefficient of 0.43.

Validity:Good convergent construct validity among people living with HIV-related fatigue. 43

47 Barroso J, Lynn MR. Psychometric properties of the HIV-Related Fatigue Scale.  J Assoc Nurses AIDS Care. 2002 Jan-Feb;13(1):66-75. PubMed PMID: 11828861. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11828861 .

48 Pence BW, Barroso J, Leserman J, Harmon JL, Salahuddin N. Measuring fatigue in people living with HIV/AIDS: psychometric characteristics of the HIV-related fatigue scale. AIDS Care. 2008 Aug;20(7):829-44. PubMed PMID: 18608084; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2586613. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18608084 .

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