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Item-total item correlation and alpha-coefficients if deleted and scale statistics for three factors identified in factor analysis |
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| Item |
Factor 1: Female-specific Moral Stigma |
Factor 2: Social Stigma |
Factor 3: Internal stigma |
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| r(i-t) |
α(d) |
r(i-t) |
α(d) |
r(i-t) |
α(d) |
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| 1. Dirty |
0.547 |
0.652 |
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| 2. Violated |
0.457 |
0.703 |
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| 5. Damaged goods |
0.459 |
0.719 |
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| 7. Guilty |
0.473 |
0.692 |
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| 8. Embarrassed |
0.591 |
0.623 |
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| 9. Clinic discretion* |
0.432 |
0.667 |
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| 10. Staff discretion* |
0.413 |
0.673 |
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| 11. Sleeps around |
0.598 |
0.632 |
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| 12. Should know better |
0.563 |
0.658 |
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| 13. Isn't careful |
0.478 |
0.697 |
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| 14. Bad person |
0.398 |
0.676 |
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| 15. Community gossip |
0.443 |
0.664 |
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| 16. Staff morals |
0.519 |
0.639 |
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| 18. Stupid |
0.404 |
0.675 |
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| N |
120 |
116 |
122 |
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| Alpha Co-efficient |
0.737 |
0.705 |
0.729 |
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| Mean |
3.77 |
5.16 |
6.59 |
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| SD |
2.52 |
1.81 |
2.68 |
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*As these items may refer to perceptions of a specific clinic, an alternative Cronbach's alpha score for the social stigma scale, eliminating these two items would be 0.647; other factors were not affected by removal of these items. Note: item 10 score was reversed for factor analysis. | ||||||
Rusch et al. BMC Women's Health 2008 8:21 doi:10.1186/1472-6874-8-21 |
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