Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 2 Values for Cronbach’s alpha and confirmatory factor analysis fit indices for the dataset of YPLHIV in Pune, India

From: Development of shortened HIV-related stigma scales for young people living with HIV and young people affected by HIV in India

	Original scale (HSS)	Adapted scales
	Berger [22]	Jeyaseelan [24]	Bunn [38]	Wright^a [26]	Rongkavilit^a [27]	Franke [42]	Wiklander^a [39]	Reinius [40]	Lindberg [41]
Number of scale items	40	25	32	10	12	21	12	12	39
Original language	English	Tamil	English	English	Thai	Spanish	Swedish	Swedish	Swedish
Cronbach’s alpha
Overall scale	0.94	0.93	0.92	0.80	0.86	0.90	0.81	0.82	0.94
Personalized stigma	0.94	0.92	0.92	0.71	0.80	0.80	0.71	0.79	0.94
Disclosure	0.74	0.60	0.69	0.32	0.43	0.67	0.53	0.70	0.69
Negative self-image	0.85	0.81	0.76	0.73	0.84	0.84	0.75	0.73	0.79
Public attitudes concerns	0.92	0.65	0.72	0.50	0.59	0.71	0.68	0.60	0.77
Model fit indices
p value for χ²	< 0.001	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.019	0.089	< 0.001	< 0.001	0.014	< 0.001
RMSEA	0.057	0.072	0.065	0.071	0.048	0.079	0.097	0.064	0.065
CFI	0.945	0.957	0.932	0.970	0.992	0.927	0.925	0.976	0.932
TLI	0.940	0.952	0.926	0.954	0.989	0.916	0.896	0.968	0.926
SRMR	0.090	0.082	0.099	0.065	0.052	0.095	0.085	0.072	0.099

HSS 40-item HIV-stigma scale, χ² chi-square associated p value, RMSEA root mean square error of approximation, CFI comparative fit index, TLI Tucker–Lewis index, SRMR standardized root mean square residual
^aShortened scales for younger populations: Wright (16–25 years); Rongkavilit (16–25 years); Wiklander (8–18 years). For Wiklander et al., we used the scale that was described in Table 1 of their paper that had 12 questions and not the final version of their shortened scale with 8 questions. This was done to maintain the 4-component structure of the original scale

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