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Cross-Cultural Validation of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale (HPASS) in China

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The study aimed to validate the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale among medical staff in China. The validation was conducted in four steps from March to December 2017: translation and back-translation; content validity test with six experts; test–retest reliability testing with 63 medical staff with 2 weeks interval; and structural validation with 349 medical staff from 52 hospitals with a convenience sample,using exploratory factor analysis,including principal component analysis and varimax rotation. The scale content validity index average was 0.88, while for test–retest reliability, the ICC was 0.87. Three factors of “discrimination”, “prejudice” and “stereotype” with 16 items were extracted and explained 59.61% variance. The Cronbach’s alpha value for the total scale was of 0.88, and for the three factors, the values were 0.89, 0.86 and 0.74, respectively. The discrimination factor showed identical means between Canadian medical students and Chinese medical staff, while the prejudice and stereotype factors had higher mean scores in the Chinese sample. The three-factor structure of Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale was confirmed in Chinese medical staff with a simpler solution. This could provide a basis for trans-cultural application and comparison.

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  1. School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China

    Hong Xie, Huiting Yu & Jing Wen

  2. Health and Social Care Faculty, The University of Hull, Hull, UK

    Roger Watson

  3. Respiratory Medicine Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, Luzhou, China

    Lu Xiao

  4. Infectious Disease Department of the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest Medical University, 25, Taiping Street, Luzhou, China

    Mao Yan & Yanhua Chen

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Xie, H., Yu, H., Watson, R. et al. Cross-Cultural Validation of the Health Care Provider HIV/AIDS Stigma Scale (HPASS) in China. AIDS Behav 23, 1048–1056 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-018-2312-1

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