Stigma related to contraceptive use and abortion in Kenya: scale development and validation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Stigma related to abortion and contraceptive use is a serious public health threat for young people, and validated scales to measure this stigma are scarce. The purposes of the study were to validate a newly constructed scale to measure the stigma of contraceptive use and to adapt a scale to measure the stigma of abortion.

Methods

A study nested in a cluster-randomised trial. In 2017, data was collected from 633 secondary school youths, in a semi-urban setting in western Kenya. A qualitative pre-phase (face-validity) were initially utilised to draft and validate a seven-item scale to capture contraceptive use stigma (CUS) and to adapt the Stigmatizing Attitudes, Beliefs and Actions (SABA) scale (18 items), which captures aspects of abortion stigma. Statistical tes

SUBMITTER: Makenzius M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731583 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature