COVID-19 Public Stigma Scale (COVID-PSS): development, validation, psychometric analysis and interpretation.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, social stigma towards COVID-19 infection has become a major component of public discourse and social phenomena. As such, we aimed to develop and validate the COVID-19 Public Stigma Scale (COVID-PSS).

Design and setting

National-based survey cross-sectional study during the lockdown in Thailand.

Participants

We invited the 4004 adult public to complete a set of measurement tools, including the COVID-PSS, global fear of COVID-19, perceived risk of COVID-19 infection, Bogardus Social Distance Scale, Pain Intensity Scale and Insomnia Severity Index.

Methods

Factor structure dimensionality was constructed and reaffirmed with model fit by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and non-parametric item response theory (IRT) a

SUBMITTER: Nochaiwong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8568532 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature