Dyadic Validation of Relational Processes in Seroconcordant Mozambican Couples: Social Support, Physician Trust, and Stigma.

ABSTRACT: Psychometric instruments can quantify how people living with HIV experience three key barriers to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and retention: partner support, trust in medical professionals, and internalized HIV-related stigma. However, two challenges arise when using these instruments to measure and interpret relational processes among Mozambican couples, especially those participating in a couples intervention. First, relational measures have almost exclusively been developed and normed with Western, middle-class, and/or White adults. Second, traditional measurement approaches neglect the relational processes between partners. Using dyadic modeling, this paper demonstrates metric and scalar invariance for instruments measuring partner support (CFI = 0.964, TLI = 0.965, RMSEA = 0.034, SRM

SUBMITTER: Frisby MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9940156 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature