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HIV Stigma Scales for Pharmacy Students

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Source Article

Rickles, N. M., Furtek, K. J., Malladi, R., Ng, E., & Zhou, M. (2016). Pharmacy Student Attitudes and Willingness to Engage in Care with People Living with HIV/AIDS. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 80(3), 45. https://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe80345

Response Options

5-point Likert scale (1=strongly disagree to 5=strongly agree)

Survey Items

General attitudes toward personal interactions with persons with HIV for which students were asked to compare their attitudes to those of what they thought pharmacy or nursing students would think

  1. Would be willing to hire a person with HIV
  2. Would be willing to live with a person with HIV
  3. Would be willing to eat at a restaurant where chef has HIV
  4. Willing to date someone with HIV
  5. Willing to get a vaccine from provider with HIV
Empathetic orientation towards persons with HIV
  1. Concerned feelings for those infected with HIV as a result of sexual assault/crimes
  2. Concerned feelings for professionals infected with HIV as a result of occupational setting (e.g., needle stick)
  3. Concerned feelings for those infected with HIV as a result of contaminated blood/blood products
  4. Concerned feelings for women infected with HIV from a male partner
  5. Concerned feelings for men who have sex with men infected with HIV
  6. Concerned feelings for those infected with HIV perinatally
Professional interactions with persons with HIV or others at risk for HIV
  1. Rather work with others than patients with HIV
  2. Prefer not to work with persons living with HIV
  3. Prefer not to work with injection drug users
  4. Uncomfortable discussing HIV at the workplace
  5. Uncomfortable discussing HIV in social settings
  6. Worry about perceptions of family and friends if they know I worked with persons with HIV
Other attitudes
  1. HIV is not a sign of personal failure
  2. A person with HIV is as productive as a person without HIV
  3. It is uncomfortable working with persons with HIV
  4. If a person with HIV approached me, I might be uncomfortable and back away a little

Internal Reliability

Cronbach’s α=0.82 (general attitudes); 0.81 (empathetic orientation); 0.82 (professional interaction)

Validity

Validity information was not available.

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Terms Of Use

Individuals may use this information for research or educational purposes only and may not use this information for commercial purposes. When using this instrument, please cite:

Rickles, N. M., Furtek, K. J., Malladi, R., Ng, E., & Zhou, M. (2016). Pharmacy Student Attitudes and Willingness to Engage in Care with People Living with HIV/AIDS. American journal of pharmaceutical education, 80(3), 45. https://doi.org/10.5688/ajpe80345

When presenting results using any survey information you obtained from the SABI, please acknowledge the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), an NIH funded program P30 AI50410.