ArticleFrontiers in public health2023
Psychometric properties of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers in 32 European countries - A bifactor ESEM representation.
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- Stigmatizing attitudes toward mental illness among mental health professionals in Kazakhstan: A cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Multivariate Patterns in Mental Health Burden and Psychiatric Resource Allocation in Europe: A Principal Component Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- 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
- Non-traditional mental health clinical placements: An effective means for reducing self-stigma in pre-registration nursing students.Journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties and validation of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers in Slovenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Prevalence of stigma towards mental illness among Portuguese healthcare professionals: a descriptive and comparative study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- The stigma towards mental illness: Portuguese validation of the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Healthcare Providers (OMS-HC).Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Attitudes of psychiatrists towards people with mental illness: a cross-sectional, multicentre study of stigma in 32 European countries.EClinicalMedicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
Aims: To measure the stigma of healthcare providers toward people suffering from mental illness, the Opening Minds Stigma Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC) is a commonly applied instrument. However, this scale has not been thoroughly validated in many European countries, its psychometric properties are still unknown and data on practicing psychiatrists is lacking. Therefore, this multicenter study aimed to assess the psychometric characteristics of the 15-item OMS-HC in trainees and specialists in adult and child psychiatry in 32 countries across Europe. Materials and methods: The OMS-HC was conducted as an anonymous online survey and sent Results: A total of 4,245 practitioners were included, 2,826 (67%) female, 1,389 (33%) male. The majority (66%) of participants were specialists, with 78% working in adult psychiatry. When country data were analyzed separately, the bifactor model (higher-order factor solution with a general factor and three specific factors) showed the best model fit (for the total sample χ Conclusion: This international study has led to cross-cultural analysis of the OMS-HC on a large sample of practicing psychiatrists. The bifactor structure displayed the best overall model fit in each country. Rather than using the subscales, we recommend the total score to quantify the overall stigmatizing attitudes. Further studies are required to strengthen our findings in countries where the proposed model was found to be weak.
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