The Development and Validation of Multi-dimensional Resilience Scale for People Living with HIV in China

The study aimed to provide a measurement tool for the assessment of resilience among people living with HIV (PLHIV) in China. The study period was from April 2019 to October 2020: first, 14 PLHIV were interviewed to build an item pool; 15 experts were invited to evaluate the scale items. The test-retest reliability of the scale was carried out with 29 PLHIV. Online and field investigation were used, and convenience sampling was conducted in Luzhou and Zigong. A pool of 31 items was formed and the Scale-Level Content Validity Index average was 0.96, while the that intra-class correlation coefficient for test-retest reliability was 0.816. From the exploratory factor analysis, four factors (Acceptance; Disease Management; Emotion Regulation; and Reconstruction) with 19 items were extracted. The Cronbach's alpha value of the Resilience Scale was 0.88. This scale could prove useful as a measuring tool for evaluating the level of resilience for PLHIV.