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Table 1 Complete questionnaire (42 items)

From: Stigmatizing attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS: validation of a measurement scale

 

Item labelling

Prejudices (affects)

1.Being around someone who has AIDS does not bother me.

2.I would not be worried for my health if a co-worker had AIDS.

3.It would not bother me if there was a boarding house for people with AIDS on my street.

21.I would quit my job before I would work with a person who is infected by the AIDS virus.

23.If I had a roommate and discovered he was infected with the AIDS virus, it would not bother me.

Prejudices (affects)

4. - I could not be friends with someone who has AIDS.

5. - I would limit my contact with a person whom I know is infected with AIDS.

6. - I would not hug someone with AIDS.

Stereotyping (cognitions)

7. - People who use injectable drugs deserve to have AIDS.

8. - My support for a person living with AIDS depends on how the person was infected.

9. - I am disgusted by persons who were infected during homosexual relations.

17. - People who are infected with the AIDS virus because they have not used a condom deserve what they get.

29. - People with AIDS have only themselves to blame.

39. - Most people with AIDS are responsible for having their illness.

Values

10. - To fight AIDS, it is necessary that young people not have sex.

11. - Reinforcement of traditional sexual values will help to control AIDS.

12. - The arrival of AIDS is linked to the fact that people have more sexual freedom.

13. - The spread of AIDS is linked to the decline of moral values.

Discrimination (actions)

14.People who have AIDS should have the right to work serving the public, as waiters-waitresses, cooks, hairdressers.

15.Children who are infected with the aids virus should be able to go to day-care.

16.Doctors with AIDS should be allowed to go on working with their patients.

19.People infected with the aids virus should be allowed to immigrate to Canada.

24.Women who know they are infected with the AIDS virus have the right to have children.

28.People who are infected with the AIDS virus have the right to have a love life.

35.People with AIDS have the right to be sexually active.

Discrimination (actions)

18.A doctor should have the right to warn the sexual partners of a person who has the AIDS virus if that person refuses to do so.

22.If my partner has the AIDS virus, I should be warned, even without his or her permission.

27. - I have the right to know if someone around me is infected with the AIDS virus.

32.When a screening test indicates that someone is infected with the AIDS virus, the result should remain confidential.

38.People infected with the AIDS virus should inform their sexual partners.

41. - Doctors should report the names of people with AIDS to the government.

Discrimination (actions)

20.It is criminal for a person who knows that he or she is infected with the AIDS virus not to use a condom.

26. - Transmitting the AIDS virus should be punishable by law.

31. - People who know they are infected with the AIDS virus and who transmit the virus are criminals.

34. - Transmitting the AIDS virus is a crime.

37.People who know they are infected with the AIDS virus and share their needles with other people should be punished under the law.

40.Transmitting the AIDS virus is a crime only if done so intentionally.

Prejudices (affects)

25.I am disgusted by people who have the AIDS virus.

30.I feel compassion for people infected with the AIDS virus.

33.People who are infected with the AIDS virus are disgusting.

36.I feel afraid of people with AIDS.

42.I feel sympathetic towards people who are infected with the AIDS virus.

  1. F1: Concerns about occasional encounters = items 1-2-3; F2: Avoidance of personal contact = items 4-5-6; F3: Responsibility and blame = items 7-8-9-17-29-39; F4: Liberalism = items 10-11-12-13; F5: Non-discrimination = items 14-15-16-19-23; F6: Confidentiality of serological status = items 27-32-41; F7: Criminalization of transmission = items 26-31-34; Bold items constitute the SAT-PLWHA-S; . - reverse-coded items.