Table 1:

Measures Utilized in Field Study to Assess Convergent Validity of the Multilevel Resilience Resource Measure for African American/Black Adults Living with HIV (MRM) with Established Measures

Measure	Scales	Higher scores/tertiles represent	Internal consistency (Cronbach’s α)
			Prior research	Study sample
Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale 10 (CD-RISC 10)	Individual-level resilience (10-items); Total resilience score	Greater resilience	0.85	0.96
Eight-item modified Medical Outcomes Social Support Survey (8-item mMOS-SS)	Emotional social support (4-items) and instrumental social support (4-items); Total social support score	Greater social support	0.88 – 0.93	0.95
Perceived Support Structures in Community Measure	Access to services that are accepting/supportive of PLWH (10-items); Total community support score	Greater community support	0.96	0.95
Brief Resilient Coping Scale	Individual-level adaptive coping (4-items); Total coping score	Greater coping capacity	0.69	0.87
Neighborhood Disadvantage Index	Census-tract level unemployment, poverty and high school education data combined and categorized by tertile	Increased neighborhood-level risk	---	---
Neighborhood Murder Index	Census-tract level murder rate data categorized by tertile	Increased neighborhood-level risk	---	---
Neighborhood Assault Index	Census-tract level assault rate data categorized by tertile	Increased neighborhood-level risk	---	---

PLWH: People living with HIV

The neighborhood-level indices are objective measures of United States census tract level neighborhood socioeconomic status (Neighborhood Disadvantage Index) and Esri-derived murder and assault rate indexes.