Journal
QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH
Volume 20, Issue 9, Pages 1447-1456Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11136-011-9877-8
Keywords
Fatigue; HIV; Psychometrics; Symptoms; Quality of life
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- National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) [5 R01 MH074358]
- General Clinical Research Center in the UCSF CTSA [1 UL RR024131]
- Research Council of Norway [19256]
- Norwegian Nurses Organization
- U.S.-Norway Fulbright Foundation
- NIH [K12 (KL2 RR024130)]
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To examine the psychometric properties of the 9-item Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) using a Rasch model application. A convenience sample of HIV-infected adults was recruited, and a subset of the sample was assessed at 6-month intervals for 2 years. Socio-demographic, clinical, and symptom data were collected by self-report questionnaires. CD4 T-cell count and viral load measures were obtained from medical records. The Rasch analysis included 316 participants with 698 valid questionnaires. FSS item 2 did not advanced monotonically, and items 1 and 2 did not show acceptable goodness-of-fit to the Rasch model. A reduced FSS 7-item version demonstrated acceptable goodness-of-fit and explained 61.2% of the total variance in the scale. In the FSS-7 item version, no uniform Differential Item Functioning was found in relation to time of evaluation or to any of the socio-demographic or clinical variables. This study demonstrated that the FSS-7 has better psychometric properties than the FSS-9 in this HIV sample and that responses to the different items are comparable over time and unrelated to socio-demographic and clinical variables.
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