Marital role strain, illness intrusiveness, and their impact on marital and individual adjustment in end-stage renal disease

Depressive Symptomatology among HIV‐Positive Women in the Era of HAART: A Stress and Coping Model

“…A summary score was created for each respondent, such that higher scores indicate greater intrusiveness. The coefficient alpha in this sample of .80 is consistent with other reports on this measure's internal consistency (Binik, Chowanec, & Devins, 1990;Devins et al, 1983;Devins, Armstrong, Mandin & Paul, 1990). We collected self-reports of most recent CD4 + count and viral load, and whether or not the participant was currently on HAART.…”

Coping with HIV Treatment Side Effects: Conceptualization, Measurement, and Linkages

“…A summary score was created for each respondent, with higher scores indicating greater intrusiveness. Previous research has provided evidence of the scale's internal consistency (a = .87) and construct validity (Binik, Chowanec, & Devins, 1990;Devins, 1983;Devins, Armstrong, Mandin, & Paul, 1990;Devins, Mandin, Hons, & Burgess, 1990). In the present study, the directions were modified to query intrusiveness from treatment rather than from illness.…”

Using the Illness Intrusiveness Ratings Scale to understand health-related quality of life in chronic disease

“…Illness intrusiveness correlates significantly and uniquely with numerous psychosocial outcomes [38][39][40][41]45,46,52,53,[69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76] and is not reducible to disease or treatment variables. Evidence supports the central hypothesis that disease and treatment affect psychosocial outcomes indirectly through their impact on illness intrusiveness [20,21,[25][26][27]38,40,41,[43][44][45][46]53,56,69,[77][78][79][80].…”

“…Illness intrusiveness is associated with a number of disease variables. In general, increased severity of disease and symptoms is associated with increased illness intrusiveness [21,25,26,[37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51]. Treatment factors also relate importantly: side effects and disruptive treatment schedules are associated with increased illness intrusiveness [40,45,[52][53][54], whereas the amelioration of disease and its effects by medical [54][55][56][57], physiotherapy [58], educational [59], or psychosocial methods [60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68] is associated with reduced illness intrusiveness.…”