Development of a Yemeni AIDS stigma scale

Badahdah, Abdallah M.; Sayem, Najat; Foote, C.E.

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“…This valid reliable instrument was constructed from the literature reviews. [ 6 14 15 ] Both relevant contents and constructs were validated by preventive medicine experts. The short version of the Healthcare Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale and the AIDS Attitude Scale are used commonly by the United Nations Organization’s AIDS program mainly in the developing world.…”

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Stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare workers in the primary healthcare centers in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, 2022

Alharbi¹,

Al-Dubai²,

Almutairi³

et al. 2022

Journal of Family and Community Medicine

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BACKGROUND: There are very few studies in Saudi Arabia on stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), a critical step for the prevention and control of HIV. The aim of this study was to assess the level of stigmatization and discrimination against PLWHA by healthcare workers (HCWs) as well as their knowledge, attitude, and practices (KAP). MATERIALS AND METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 182 HCWs at primary healthcare centers in Medina, Saudi Arabia. The validated short version of the Healthcare Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale and the AIDS Attitude Scale were used in this research. Student’s t-test and analysis of variance (ANOVA) were used to assess the differences in the mean knowledge, attitudes, and practices KAP scores by various sociodemographic factors. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to determine factors associated with KAP scores. RESULTS: Most participants were males (58.2%) and aged more than 30 years (60.4%). The tendency to stigmatizing behavior was present in 24.2%–68.17% of the participants, and discriminatory practice was present in 11.5%–50% of the participants. In multiple linear regression analysis, factors that independently predicted the knowledge score were being a doctor compared to nurses (P < 0.001), receiving in-service training for PLWHA (P < 0.001), and male gender (P = 0.002). Attitude was predicted by being female (P = 0.008) and a doctor (P = 0.005). Practice was predicted by the knowledge score (P < 0.001) and being married (P = 0.035). CONCLUSION: This study found that stigmatization and discrimination were less prevalent in HCWs who had good HIV-related knowledge and had received in-service training for PLWHA. The results highlight the significance of continuing education and training opportunities for HCWs to provide effective and appropriate treatment to PLWHA.

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Stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare workers in the primary healthcare centers in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, 2022

Alharbi¹,

Al-Dubai²,

Almutairi³

et al. 2022

Journal of Family and Community Medicine

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“…Section 3 was the Yemeni AIDS scale, 28 used to assess the convergent validity of the HPASS. This is a 10-item scale in Arabic that consists of two subscales with five items each: "rejection" and "shame and blame."…”

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

Aziz

Badahdah

Mohammed

2021

J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care

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HIV stigma among health care providers in the Arab world is understudied due to a lack of valid and reliable measures. Data from 352 Egyptian physicians was used to validate an Arabic version of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale (HPASS). Exploratory factor analysis ( n = 1 9 4) suggested a 3 -factor structure. Confirmatory factor analysis ( n = 1 5 8) validated the three-factor solution with 18 items, which explained 5 3 .3 6% of the variance. All items loaded on their designated constructs, which ranged from 0 .58 to 0 .82 (prejudice) to 0 .58 to 0 .66 (stereotypes) and 0 .52 to 0 .91 (discrimination). The prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination subscales consisted of seven, five, and six items, respectively. The internal consistency (α = 0 .9 0) and the test-retest reliability demonstrated ( r = 0 .9 5) were excellent. The cultural adaptation of the Arabic version of HPASS suggests that it is a suitable scale for assessing HIV stigma among Arab health care providers.

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“…Despite the presence of psychometrically sound measures of HIV-related stigma among a variety of populations, including PLWHAs [21], [22], healthcare providers of PLWHAs [23], [24], HIV-affected youth and children [25], [26], men who have sex with men [27], and general populations in South Africa [28] and Yemen [29], few studies have investigated HIV-related stigma at the affected family level. This deficiency may reflect the absence of a validated scale to measure HIV stigma in both PLWHAs and their HIV-uninfected family members.Therefore, we designed a set of brief measurement scales to assess HIV-related stigma perceived by PLWHAs and courtesy stigma perceived by HIV-uninfected family members of PLWHAs.…”

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Measuring HIV Stigma at the Family Level: Psychometric Assessment of the Chinese Courtesy Stigma Scales (CCSSs)

Liu

Sun

et al. 2014

PLoS ONE

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Courtesy stigma is the stigmatization a person perceives or experiences due to their association with a stigmatized individual or group. Most HIV-related stigma scales have been developed for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), but not for their HIV-uninfected family members. To date, few measurement scales have been designed to measure the degree of stigma among both PLWHAs and their HIV-uninfected family members at the family level. We developed a set of courtesy stigma scales and estimated their reliability and validity from 256 PLWHAs and 256 of their HIV-uninfected family members. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed in two independent samples: a development sample (N = 216) and a validation sample (N = 296), respectively. Two factors (“public stigma” and “self-perceived stigma”) had high internal consistency reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficient between 0.83–0.90) and good construct validity (standardized factor loading range: 0.37–0.95) in both samples. These findings document that the newly developed brief instrument is a psychometrically sound measure of HIV-related stigma among both PLWHAs and their HIV-uninfected family members.

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Development of a Yemeni AIDS stigma scale

Cited by 7 publications

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Stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare workers in the primary healthcare centers in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, 2022

Stigmatization and discrimination against people living with HIV/AIDS: Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of healthcare workers in the primary healthcare centers in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, 2022

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

Measuring HIV Stigma at the Family Level: Psychometric Assessment of the Chinese Courtesy Stigma Scales (CCSSs)

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