Table 2.

Internal consistency reliability estimates of the QOL-CHAI instrument for children living with HIV (n = 199).^a

Scale	Items	Cronbach’s α	Correlation of item with total scale score	Cronbach’s α following deletion of item
Physical functioning	It was difficult for me to walk 8–10 minutes at a stretch	0.82	0.52	0.80
	I had difficulty running		0.62	0.78
	I had difficulty playing or exercising		0.69	0.77
	I had difficulty lifting heavy objects		0.52	0.80
	It was hard for me to bathe by myself		0.44	0.81
	It was hard for me to do housework		0.55	0.79
	I had body pain, ache, or discomfort		0.46	0.81
	I felt weak		0.50	0.80
Emotional functioning	I felt afraid	0.79	0.53	0.76
	I felt sad or depressed		0.65	0.73
	I felt angry		0.49	0.78
	I had difficulty sleeping		0.60	0.74
	I felt worried about what would happen to me		0.57	0.75
Social functioning	I had trouble getting along with friends	0.85	0.71	0.81
	Other boys/girls did not want to be friends with me	0.68		0.81
	Other boys/girls made fun of me	0.65		0.82
	I could not do things that my friends could do	0.62		0.83
	I could not keep up with friends while playing	0.64		0.83
School functioning	I could not pay attention in class	0.76	0.67	0.67
	I forgot many things		0.54	0.72
	I had difficulty in keeping up with my studies		0.49	0.74
	I missed school because of being sick		0.49	0.74
	I missed school in order to visit doctor/hospital		0.48	0.74
Symptoms	Fever	0.69	0.46	0.65
	Common cold		0.34	0.66
	Weight loss, emaciation		0.41	0.66
	Diarrhea, loose stools		0.33	0.67
	Pain in the limbs		0.21	0.68
	Headache		0.24	0.68
	Skin rash, itchy lesions, sores/ulcers		0.17	0.68
	Vomiting, nausea		0.33	0.67
	Ear discharge, hearing difficulties		0.04	0.70
	Loss of appetite		0.18	0.68
	Abdominal pain		0.32	0.67
	Jaundice, yellowish discoloration of eyes		0.10	0.69
	Dizziness		0.19	0.68
	Throat swelling, sore throat		0.33	0.67
	Abdominal distension		0.24	0.68
	Shortness of breath, wheezing		0.30	0.67
	Tingling sensation/numbness in limbs		0.25	0.67
	Oral ulcer		0.42	0.66
Discrimination	The staff at hospital/health facilities were rude to meb	0.62c	0.03	0.70
	Doctors were rude to me		0.04	0.69
	I was not allowed admission to school/private tutorial institutionb		0.60	0.48
	I was made to sit separately in school/private tutorial institution		0.54	0.50
	Other boys/girls refused to play with me		0.53	0.50
	People in the neighborhood did not allow their kids to play with me		0.48	0.52

QOL-CHAI: quality of life (health-related) of children living with HIV/AIDS in India.

^aObservations with missing values excluded as applicable.

^bThese two items were deleted from the scale.

^cCronbach’s α of discrimination scale following deletion of two items = 0.8.