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SUBMITTER: Kutner BA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7717105 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kutner Bryan A BA King Kevin M KM Dorsey Shannon S Creegan Emma E Simoni Jane M JM
AIDS and behavior 20200901 9
We conducted a series of studies to validate a new scale of stigma toward anal sex, culturally tailored to cisgender men who have sex with men (MSM). In Study 1 we conducted in-depth interviews (N = 35) to generate items. In Study 2, we reduced the item pool through an online survey (N = 268), testing scale performance, dimensionality, and convergent and discriminant validity. For Study 3, we recruited another online sample (N = 1605), randomized to exploratory or confirmatory factor analyses to ...[more]