ArticleBMC psychiatry2020
Factor structure of The Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers and psychometric properties of its Hungarian version.
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- Examining psychometric properties of the Sinhala version of the 'Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers' to measure stigma towards mental illness using confirmatory factor analysis.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Mental health literacy among primary care providers in Hungary: a vignette-based survey.Annals of general psychiatry · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties and validation of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers in Slovenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Adapting the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers to Measure Opioid-Related Stigma.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Psychometric assessment of the Persian adaptation of the attitudes toward seeking professional psychological help scale-short form.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- The stigma towards mental illness: Portuguese validation of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers (OMS-HC).Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Psychometric validation of the Reported and Intended Behaviour Scale (RIBS) in Hungary with a particular focus on 'Don't know' responses and further scoring recommendations.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Validation of the Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC): Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Brazilian Version.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Psychometric properties of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers in 32 European countries - A bifactor ESEM representation.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Stigma towards mental illness and help-seeking behaviors among adult and child psychiatrists in Hungary: A cross-sectional study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Psychometric evaluation of the German version of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC).BMC psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC) is a widely used questionnaire to measure the stigmatising attitudes of healthcare providers towards patients with mental health problems. The psychometric properties of the scale; however, have never been investigated in Hungary. We aimed to thoroughly explore the factor structure of the OMS-HC and examine the key psychometric properties of the Hungarian version.
methodsThe OMS-HC is a self-report questionnaire that measures the overall stigmatising attitude by a total score, and three subscales can be calculated: Attitude, Disclosure and Help-seeking, and Social Distance. Our study population included specialists and trainees in adult and child psychiatry (n = 211). Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed, and higher-order factors were tested. We calculated the test-retest reliability on a subgroup of our sample (n = 31) with a follow-up period of 1 month. The concurrent validity of the scale was measured with the Mental Illness: Clinician's Attitudes-4 scale (MICA-4).
resultsThree factors were extracted based on a parallel-analysis. A bifactor solution (a general factor and three specific factors) showed an excellent model-fit (root mean square error of approximation = 0.025, comparative fit index = 0.961, and Tucker-Lewis index = 0.944). The model-based reliability was low; however, the general factor showed acceptable reliability (coefficient omega hierarchical = 0.56). The scale demonstrated a good concurrent validity with the MICA-4 [intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) = 0.77]. The test-retest reliability was excellent for the general factor (ICC = 0.95) and good for the specific factors (ICC = 0.90, 0.88, and 0.84, respectively).
conclusionsThe three dimensions of the OMS-HC was confirmed, and the scale was found to be an adequate measure of the stigmatising attitude in Hungary. The bifactor model is more favourable as compared to the three correlated factor model; however, despite the excellent internal structure, its model-based reliability was low.
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