What is it about?
The study involved an examination of psychometric properties of an 18-item HIV felt stigma. Responses to questionnaires collected from a diverse ethnic and socioeconomic group of 370 people living with HIV/AIDS who were receiving HIV/AIDS-related health services at an HIV clinic in Kenya constituted the study’s data. Via factor analyses, four factor solution—public attitudes, ostracize, discrimination, personal life disrupted—were discovered based on the Scree plot with explained variance of 44% that had Eigen values greater than 1.00. A Cronbach's alpha coefficient of 0.828 was revealed by the retained felt stigma. The four factors (public attitudes, ostracize, discrimination, personal life disrupted) had coefficient alphas ranging from 0.675 to 0.799.
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Why is it important?
We consider the adapted retained questionnaire as a practical guide for measuring felt stigma in a Kenya and other places in Africa and the emerging democracies.
Perspectives
The cultural tenets of healthcare uncovered in this study will help healthcare providers and research scientists to understand the connection between healthcare delivery and its connection with socio-cultural mores of a people.
Distinguished Professor Samuel Gyasi Obeng
Indiana University System
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This page is a summary of: Psychometric Evaluation of a Cross-Culturally Adapted Felt Stigma Questionnaire Among People Living with HIV in Kenya, AIDS Patient Care and STDs, August 2013, Mary Ann Liebert Inc,
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2012.0403.
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