AIDS do to manage the 6 common symptoms of anxiety. Depression. Diarrhea. Fatigue. Nausea. And neuropathy. The revised scale is directed at symptoms common for persons with MTBI and includes headache. anxiety. depression. fatigue, memory difficulties, dizziness, 2.5.9 see appendix for sample of the anxiety symptom self-management scales.
The original scale (wwe.ucsf.edu/aidsnursing) was evaluated for a psychometric validation by holzemer and colleagues 10,11 and included validation of the original sing and symptom checklists for persons with HIV disease and the revised sing and symptom check-list for HIV. Validity and-reliability of the UCSF self-management questionnaire has been established through its use in studies with the HIV AIDS population. These studies showed interrater reliability of 0.49 to 1.12 validity is supported by the use of the scale within the larger symptom management manual. However. Specific validity scores are not reported.
Questionnaires Available from Holzemer and colleagues 10 for the HIV / AIDS population include fatigue. depression, anxiety, neuropathy, and nausea. From the TBI literature, it is known that fatigue, depression. and anxiety are also common symptoms for that population. In addition, headache, dizziness,and memory difficulties are common complaints, and therefore should be added for the TBI population questionnaires.
Because this scale is a revision of the original scale used for HIV/AIDS, it has not been tested on a TBI population. The adapted scale for TBI will be pilot tested with persons with MTBI and healthy controls. We expect to find diffierences in responses between groups (MTBI and controls ). as well as to evaluate the ease of use of the scale.
This study is guided by the UCSF symptom management conceptual framework. This study aims to identify if the revised measure includes questionnaires for the most commonly reported MTBI symptoms, test the ease of use of the measure, identify if the measure contains items that are commonly used as self-care management techniques for MTBI.
PURPOSE
The purpose of this study is to pilot test a measure originally created as a self-management measure for HIV AIDS, which has been adapted for use with TBI.