Measuring public attitudes towards people living with chronic diseases in Arabic-speaking populations: adaptation and development of the Social Stigma Scale of Chronic Diseases (SSS-CD)

Table 2 The 10 items of the Social Stigma Scale of Chronic Diseases (SSS-CD) in English and Factor Loadings Derived from the Exploratory Factor Analyses (EFA) in the First Split-Half Subsample, and Standardized Estimates of Factor Loadings from the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) in the Second Split-Half Subsample

	EFA		CFA
Item	Factor 1	Factor 2
1. People with chronic diseases are as intelligent as anybody else*		0.53	0.75
2. People with chronic diseases are not to be trusted	0.69		0.66
3. Being with chronic diseases says nothing about who you are*		0.62	0.43
4. People with chronic diseases are no different from anybody else*		0.68	0.77
5. People with chronic diseases should be ashamed on themselves	0.76		0.80
6. People with chronic diseases have nothing to feel guilty about*		0.75	0.42
7. You become with chronic diseases by being weak-willed or foolish	0.77		0.80
8. People with chronic diseases should be segregated in the workplace	0.76		0.74
9. It is safe for people with chronic diseases to work with children*		0.70	0.56
10. People with chronic diseases must expect some restrictions on their freedom*	0.69		0.72

*refers to reversed scoring items; Factor 1 = Negative attitude towards stigma; Factor 2 = Positive attitude towards stigma

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