TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Saldivia, Sandra
AU  - Runte Geidel, Ariadne
AU  - Grandón, Pamela
AU  - Torres González, Francisco
AU  - Xavier, Miguel
AU  - Antonioli, Claudio
AU  - Ballester, Dinarte
AU  - Melipillán, Roberto
AU  - Galende, Emiliano
AU  - Vicente, Benjamín
AU  - Caldas, José Miguel
AU  - Killaspy, Helen
AU  - Gibbons, Rachel
AU  - King, Michael
PY  - 2014
SN  - 1471-244X
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/34984
AB  - Background:

People with schizophrenia face prejudice and discrimination from a number of sources including professionals and families. The degree of stigma perceived and experienced varies across cultures and communities. We aimed to develop a...
AB  - Method:

Items for the scale were developed from qualitative group interviews with people with schizophrenia in six countries. The scale was then applied in face-to-face interviews with 164 participants, 103 of which were repeated after 30 days....
AB  - Results:

The final scale has 31 items and four factors: informal social networks, socio-institutional, health professionals and self-stigma. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.84 for the Factor 1; 0.81 for Factor 2; 0.74 for Factor 3, and 0.75 for Factor 4....
AB  - Conclusions:

The MARISTAN stigma scale is a reliable measure of the stigma of schizophrenia and related psychoses across several cultures. A confirmatory factor analysis is needed to assess the stability of its factor structure.
LA  - eng
PB  - Biomed Central
KW  - Stigma
KW  - Questionnaire
KW  - Psychometrics
KW  - Rating scale schizophrenia
TI  - The Maristán stigma scale: a standardized international measure of the stigma of schizophrenia and other psychoses
DO  - 10.1186/1471-244X-14-182
ER  -