Validating survey measurement scales for AIDS-related knowledge and stigma among construction workers in South Africa

Type Journal Article - BMC public health
Title Validating survey measurement scales for AIDS-related knowledge and stigma among construction workers in South Africa
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Volume 16
Issue 1
Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2016
Page numbers 70
URL https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-016-2756-z
Abstract
Construction workers in South Africa are regarded as a high-risk group in the context of HIV/AIDS. HIV testing is pivotal to controlling HIV transmission and providing palliative care and AIDS-related knowledge and stigma are key issues in addressing the likelihood of testing behaviour. In exploring these issues, various studies have employed an 11-item AIDS-related knowledge scale (Kalichman and Simbayi, AIDS Care 16:572-580, 2004) and a 9-item stigma scale (Kalichman et al., AIDS Behav 9:135-143, 2005), but little evidence exists confirming the psychometric properties of these scales.

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