Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Assessment of an Arabic Version of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale

Aziz, Mirette M.; Badahdah, Abdallah M.; Mohammed, Heba M.

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“…The findings on Cronbach's alpha and validity indices were similar to this study. Furthermore, Mokhtarabadi et al 20 and Aziz et al 21 assessed the validity and reliability of other HIV-related stigma scales among nonpeople with HIV; that is, general population and healthcare providers. These studies may be related to HIV stigma among PLWHA, so it is important to consider them in any study related to stigma validation, especially in confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis.…”

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Validity and Reliability of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Stigma Questionnaire in Persian

Moradzadeh

Navidi

Zamanian

2023

J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care

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Background: It was aimed to adapt a 12-item questionnaire into Persian among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLHIV) in Markazi province. Material and Methods: Content validity was evaluated based on the opinions of the relevant experts, and by calculating the scale-level content validity index (S-CVI) and the item-level content validity index (I-CVI). Reliability was assessed via test–retest, intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC), and Cronbach's alpha. Results: The obtained scores on clarity and relevancy (I-CVI) ranged from 0.9 to 1. The S-CVI also had an acceptable validity of 0.99. The Cronbach's alpha index of the whole questionnaire was 0.84 and ranged from 0.69 to 0.82 for subscales. The ICC in test–retest for all questionnaires was 0.88 and for subscales ranged from 0.77 to 0.88. Conclusion: The Persian version of the 12-item human immunodeficiency virus-related stigma questionnaire was found to be, in addition to being short and comprehensive, acceptable reliability and high validity to use in order to determine the stigma related to Persian-speaker PLHIV.

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Validity and Reliability of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Stigma Questionnaire in Persian

Moradzadeh

Navidi

Zamanian

2023

J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care

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“…Up to our knowledge, there are only two tools for assessment of stigma of HCPs against PLHIV [ 14 , 18 ]. This is the first study that used HPASS as a validated instrument in colloquial Arabic for assessment of stigma and discrimination of PLHIV by HCPs [ 14 ]. The scale was previously used in USA and Canada [ 19 , 20 ].…”

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“…Section 2 included assessment of HCPs attitudes towards PLHIV by the validated Arabic version of the HPASS scale. The validated Arabic version [ 14 ] consists of 18 items distributed through three subscales measuring prejudice (7 items), stereotypes (5 items), and discrimination (6 items), rated on a 6-point Likert scale ranging from 1 (strongly agree) to 6 (strongly disagree), with higher scores indicating more stigma towards PLHIV by HCPs. It has a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.91.…”

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Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV by health care providers in Egypt

Aziz

Abdelrheem

Mohammed

2023

BMC Health Serv Res

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Objective HIV/AIDS has been recently increasingly observed in developing countries including Egypt. This study aimed to explore stigma and discrimination attitudes of health care providers (HCPs) in Egypt, as elimination of stigma in healthcare settings is a priority to improve case detection and management. Methods A Google form questionnaire using the validated Arabic version of Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale (HPASS) was sent to physicians and nurses of Ministry of health (MOH) hospitals and University hospitals in 10 randomly selected Governorates in Egypt. Data was collected from July to August, 2022 from 1577 physicians and 787 nurses. Bivariate and multivariable linear regression analyses were used to identify the predictors of the stigmatizing attitude of HCPs towards People living with HIV (PLHIV). Results The majority of HCPs had worries about contracting HIV infection from their patients (75.8% of physicians and 77% of nurses). They believed that protective measures are not good enough to protect them from getting infected (73.9% of physicians and 74.7% of nurses). About half of the participants had worries about the safety of performing blood investigations to PLHIV (54% of physicians and 59.9% of nurses). Less than half of HCPs believed they have the right to refuse providing care to patients to protect themselves (44.6% of physicians and 50.1% of nurses). Only 10.5% of physicians and 11.9% of nurses have previously refused to provide health care to PLHIV. There was a significantly higher mean score of prejudice and stereotype among nurses compared to physicians (prejudice; 27.34 ± 7.88 vs 26.17 ± 7.5, stereotype; 18.54 ± 4.61 vs 16.43 ± 5.21, for nurses and physicians, respectively). Less years of physicians’ experience (B = -0.10, p < 0.01) and rural residence (B = 1.48, p < 0.05) were significantly associated with higher prejudice score while having lower qualification (B = -1.47, p < 0.001) was significantly associated with higher stereotype score. Conclusion Standards of practice should be developed to adjust the services and prepare HCPs to provide medical care free from stigma and discrimination against PLHIV. Improving knowledge of HCPs regarding the methods of transmission of HIV, the use of infection control measures and the emotional factors shaping lives of PLHIV should be targeted through updated training programs. More concern should be directed to young providers in the training programs.

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Brazilian Version of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation Among Healthcare Students

Ribeiro,

Vitori,

dos Santos

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AIDS Behav

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Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Assessment of an Arabic Version of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Validity and Reliability of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Stigma Questionnaire in Persian

Validity and Reliability of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Related Stigma Questionnaire in Persian

Stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV by health care providers in Egypt

Brazilian Version of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale: Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Evaluation Among Healthcare Students

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