Module 45: Life Stressors Form

A Module Used in The Measurement Group's Cross-Cutting Evaluation of the HRSA HIV/AIDS Bureau's Special Projects of National Significance on Innovative Models of HIV/AIDS Care

Purpose

  • Standard measure of the presence of significant sources of life stress.

Content Domain - Checklist of major life stressors and valence associated with each.

Operational Data Items - Site, Sub-Provider, Date, Staff Code, ID Letters/ID Numbers, a list of events that the client may or may not have experienced, ratings of the severity of each of the events.

Citation - Huba, G. J., Melchior, L. A., Staff of The Measurement Group, and HRSA/HAB's SPNS Cooperative Agreement Steering Committee (1996). Module 45: Life Stressors Form. Available: www.TheMeasurementGroup.com. Culver City, California: The Measurement Group.

Source Citation

  • Items are from a modified version of: Dohrenwend, B. S., Krasnoff, L., Askenasy, A. R., and Dohrenwend, B. P. (1978).  Exemplification of a method for scaling life events: The PERI Life Events Scale. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 19, 205-229.
  • This modified version of the PERI Life Events Scale is from work by Mellins, Elkin, and Ehrhardt.

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