. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 20.

Published in final edited form as: AIDS Behav. 2011 May;15(4):853–861. doi: 10.1007/s10461-010-9706-z

Table 5.

Agreement and agreement beyond chance of symptoms (absence/presence) that were significantly (P < 0.05) associated with outcomes, after controlling for CD₄ count and HIV-1 RNA

Symptom	Outcome(s)	Agreement	Agreement beyond chance (kappa score)^a
Nervous/anxious	Hospitalization	0.57	0.17
Hair loss or changes	Hospitalization	0.66	0.03
Coughing/trouble breathing	PCS	0.64	0.21
Fatigue/loss of energy	PCS	0.60	0.19
Loss of appetite/food taste	PCS	0.59	0.14
Muscle aches/joint pain	PCS	0.52	0.15
Trouble remembering	PCS	0.56	0.15
Problems with weight loss/wasting	PCS, Hospitalization	0.64	0.20
Diarrhea/loose bowels	PCS, Survival	0.58	0.23

Kappa score < 0.40—poor agreement; 0.40–0.75—fair to good agreement