Stigma towards people with tuberculosis: a cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a scale in Indonesia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Tuberculosis (TB) remains a highly stigmatised disease that can cause or exacerbate mental health disorders. Despite increased awareness of the importance of reducing TB stigma, validated tools to measure TB stigma remain scarce. This study aimed to culturally adapt and validate the Van Rie TB Stigma Scale in Indonesia, a country with the second largest TB incidence worldwide.

Methods

We validated the scale in three phases: translation, cultural adaptation, and psychometric evaluation. We invited diverse experts to an interdisciplinary panel for the cross-cultural adaptation, then performed a psychometric evaluation of the scale: exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis with Patient Health Questionnaire 9 [PHQ-

SUBMITTER: Fuady A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100612 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature