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Table 1 The final 9-item HIV/AIDS stigma scale ordered from least to most difficult item

From: A latent trait approach to measuring HIV/AIDS related stigma in healthcare professionals: application of mokken scaling technique

Item Nr.

Mean scorea

Item

Item Hb

Violationc

Critd

1

0.86

People with HIV should NOT be bus drivers.

0.61

0

0

2

1.05

People with HIV should NOT be religious leaders.

0.53

1

39

3

1.06

People with HIV should NOT be police officers.

0.56

2

46

4

1.15

If you come to know that your friend is HIV positive, would you continue your friendship with him/her?

0.57

1

23

5

1.27

If you come to know that your colleague is HIV positive, would you continue working with him/her?

0.56

0

0

6

1.80

Would you allow your HIV positive friend to use your bathroom?

0.55

1

60

7

1.89

Would you discourage your sibling from becoming friends with an HIV/AIDS person?

0.52

1

62

8

2.66

Would you send your child to a school where one of its teachers is HIV positive?

0.55

0

0

9

4.13

A family has a right to know if a member is infected with HIV and this is more important than a family member’s right to privacy.

0.43

0

0

  1. Note.- Loevinger’s scale coefficient H computed on the transposed Mokken scale HT = 0.53; H = 0.54; reliability α = 0.89
  2. aMean score ranges from 0 to 6
  3. bLoevinger’s scalability coefficient
  4. cThe summary of the number of manifest monotonicity violation(s). Some violations are too small to be relevant [17]
  5. dCrit[ical] value above 80 indicates poor items that violate the assumptions of Mokken scale