The Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management Scale Applied to Persons with HIV/AIDS

Abstract

The Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management Scale (PMCSMS), a generic instrument developed to assess self-management self-efficacy in specific medical conditions, was tailored for use with HIV+ individuals and administered to 125 HIV+ adults, predominantly men. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.78, indicating internal consistency reliability. Correlations between the PHIVSMS and other validated psychometric instruments measuring generalized self efficacy, dispositional optimism, depressive symptoms, positive and negative affect and HIV quality of life demonstrate the validity of using this scale with an HIV population. The PMCSMS has broad utility as a generic template that can easily be adapted to different medical conditions.

The Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management Scale can be applied to patients with chronic kidney disease

“…The PMCSMS had been previously validated for use when tailored to address other chronic illnesses (e.g., diabetes 30 and HIV 32 ) and can be confidently applied in patients with kidney disease. Further, the similar performance of the HD and CKD samples, as well as the lack of difference between patients with Stage 3 and Stage 4/5 CKD, indicates that the PKDSMS can be used across the range of kidney disease severity.…”

“…It had been previously validated in diabetes 30 and HIV 32 and has been found to not significantly correlate with measures of social desirability bias. 31 …”

“…30 Since then, condition-specific versions using the PMCSMS template have been found to be reliable and valid among persons with diabetes, HIV/AIDS, and various rheumatologic conditions. 30–32 …”

Development and validation of the Patient Experience with Treatment and Self-management (PETS): a patient-reported measure of treatment burden

“…The battery consisted of the 78-item PETS measure as well as several established scales, including a 5-item chronic condition distress scale adapted from the Diabetes Distress Scale [33] and specified generally for “health problems” (L. Fisher, personal communication), the 5-item Side Effects and 3-item Convenience subscales of the Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) [34], the 8-item Perceived Medical Condition Self-Management scale (PMCSM), a general dispositional measure of self-efficacy or perceived competence in managing one's health condition [35], and the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Global-10 featuring global physical health (GPH) and global mental health (GMH) summary scores [36]. All are reliable and valid measures in patients with chronic illnesses [34,36,37,33].…”

A Randomized Clinical Trial of Smoking Cessation Treatments Provided in HIV Clinical Care Settings

“…Perceived competence, or selfefficacy, has consistently been associated with adherence to HIV treatment (Arnsten et al, 2007;Barclay et al, 2007;Johnson et al, 2007). Perceived competence to manage health issues has also been associated with high levels of HIV quality Advance Access publication February 19, 2013 of life (Wallston, Osborn, Wagner, & Hilker, 2011). Overall perceived ability to manage multiple health demands may be particularly relevant to smoking cessation in this population.…”