Development and Initial Validation of Stigma Towards Healthcare Providers Working with COVID-19 Patients Scale (S19-HCPs)
Purpose
The S19-HCPs tool evaluates the stigma towards healthcare providers working with patients with COVID-19.
Materials and Methods
The psychometric properties of the Arabic and English versions of the S19-HCPs were examined. A survey using the S19-HCPs scale was administered online. Two reliability analyses were used in this study to identify the extent to which S19-HCPs shows consistent results (internal consistency and test–retest reliability). The English version of the scale was piloted on 33 Jordanian and the Arabic version on 27 Iraqi participants.
Results
The internal consistency of the English and Arabic S19-HCPs was satisfactory (α = 0.79, 0.74, respectively). Two-week test–retest correlations were all statistically significant (ICC = 0.91, 0.89, respectively).
Conclusion
The S19-HCPs is psychometrically robust and can be used in research assessing the stigma towards healthcare providers working with patients with COVID-19 in English and Arabic-speaking countries.
Other Information
Published in: Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.2147/jmdh.s321498
Funding
Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.
History
Language
- English
Publisher
Dove Medical PressPublication Year
- 2021
License statement
This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Institution affiliated with
- Hamad Medical Corporation
- Hazm Mebaireek General Hospital - HMC
- Mental Health Service - HMC
- University of Calgary in Qatar
- Qatar University
- Qatar University Health - QU
- College of Medicine - QU HEALTH
