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ArticleBMC nursing2023

Validation of the attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS scale in nursing students.

María Gázquez-López, Inmaculada García-García, Alberto González-García, Adelina Martín-Salvador, María Ángeles Pérez-Morente, Encarnación Martínez-García, María Adelaida Álvarez-Serrano

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Article in BMC nursing, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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  2. Examining the social determinants of HIV/AIDS in Madidi village in Bojanala District, North West province.South African family practice : official journal of the South African Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

María Gázquez-LópezDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Ceuta, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7628-0879
Inmaculada García-GarcíaDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración n. º 16, Granada, Granada, 18016, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0500-7175
Alberto González-GarcíaDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración n. º 16, Granada, Granada, 18016, Spain. albertogonzalez@ugr.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7314-1435
Adelina Martín-SalvadorDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración n. º 16, Granada, Granada, 18016, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3852-9861
María Ángeles Pérez-MorenteDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Jaén, Jaén, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5580-2356
Encarnación Martínez-GarcíaDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Avenida de la Ilustración n. º 16, Granada, Granada, 18016, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0372-7072
María Adelaida Álvarez-SerranoDepartment of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Granada, Ceuta, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6779-806X
Universidad de Granada · ESAndalusian Health Service · ESUniversidad de Jaén · ES

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundOne of the environments where people living with HIV/AIDS should feel safer is in the health care setting; however, scientific evidence has identified discriminatory behaviour on the part of health care professionals towards these people. The reduction or abolition of discriminatory practices requires, first of all, to know the attitudes of nursing students towards AIDS with tools appropriate to the socio-cultural context of the disease. The objectives of this study are to update the AIDS Attitudes Scale for Nursing Students (EASE) by adapting it to the sociocultural landscape and to analyse the reliability and structural validity of the new scale.

methodsThe results of the questionnaires answered by 213 undergraduate nursing students from the Faculty of Health Sciences of Ceuta (University of Granada) were analysed. Reliability (test-retest, n = 33) and validity (n = 180) tests were carried out.

resultsAn exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis indicated that a four-factor model was the most parsimonious solution. Items were examined for their underlying relationships and labelled: professional practice, social integration, partner and family, and benevolent stigma. The new scale yielded a McDonald's Omega coefficient (ω) of 0.893. Convergent validity was established for average variance extracted per factor greater than 0.5 and divergent validity when the variance retained by each factor is greater than the variance shared between them (average variance extracted per factor > ϕ2).

conclusionsThe new scale is a psychometrically sound instrument for assessing attitudes towards people living with HIV/AIDS in nursing students.

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Attitude of Health PersonnelHIV/AIDSNursing studentsPsychometrics.

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