The Latin American version of the internalized stigma of mental illness scale (LA-ISMI): a multicentric validation study from three Latin American countries

Table 3 External validity of the ISMI dimension scores and index

	Dimension 1: social stigma	Dimension 2: stigma experience	Dimension 3: self-stigma	Index
Symptoms severity
PANSS total score	0.26**	0.33**	0.24**	0.33**
Positive factor	0.24**	0.30**	0.22**	0.30**
Negative factor	0.31**	0.24**	0.18**	0.30**
Depressive factor	0.18**	0.26**	0.19**	0.27**
Cognitive factor	0.13*	0.27**	0.22**	0.23**
Hostile-excitement factor	0.01	0.18**	0.13*	0.12
Quality of life
S-QoL 18 index	−0.38**	−0.47**	−0.42**	−0.51**
Age (years)	0.08	0.11	−0.07	0.04
Monthly family income (US dollars)	−0.21**	− 0.11	−0.14*	− 0.21**
Age at onset of the disease (years)	−0.02	− 0.07	−0.04	− 0.07
Number of hospitalizations	0.09	0.04	0.02	0.05
Gender
Men	2.9 (0.8)	2.4 (0.8)	2.4 (1.0)	2.6 (0.7)
p-value	0.009	0.499	0.865	0.303
Ethnicity
Aymara	2.8 (0.9)	2.5 (0.7)	2.6 (0.9)	2.7 (0.7)
p-value	0.220	0.590	0.011	0.072
Education level
< 12 years	2.8 (0.9)	2.5 (0.8)	2.5 (1.0)	2.6 (0.7)
p-value	0.177	0.106	0.068	0.062
Employment status
With employment	2.5 (0.9)	2.2 (0.8)	2.2 (0.9)	2.3 (0.7)
Without employment	2.9 (0.8)	2.6 (0.8)	2.5 (1.0)	2.7 (0.7)
p-value	0.001	0.001	0.016	< 0.001
Mental health treatment
Only pharmacological	2.8 (0.9)	2.4 (0.8)	2.4 (1.0)	2.6 (0.7)
p-value	0.630	0.460	0.354	0.803

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