Development and psychometric testing of a barriers to HIV testing scale among individuals with HIV infection in Sweden; The Barriers to HIV testing scale-Karolinska version

Table 3 Descriptive statistics for the Barriers to HIV Testing Scale – Karolinska version: number of items per scale, means, standard deviations (SD), floor and ceiling effects, and Cronbach’s α (N = 285)

Scale^a	No. of items	Mean	SD	Floor/ceiling effects (%)^b	α
Personal consequences	7	0.47	0.61	48.8/3.5	0.91
Structural barriers	6	0.24	0.40	58.2/0.7	0.78
Social and economic security	3	0.31	0.57	68.8/5.3	0.80
Confidentiality	2	0.48	0.70	61.4/11.9	0.80

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