Stigma towards people with tuberculosis: a cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a scale in Indonesia

Fuady, Ahmad, Arifin, Bustanul, Yunita, Ferdiana, Rauf, Saidah, Fitriangga, Agus, Sugiharto, Agus, Yani, Finny Fitry, Nasution, Helmi Suryani, Putra, IWayan Gede Artawan Eka, Mansyur, Muchtaruddin and Wingfield, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8433-6887 (2023) 'Stigma towards people with tuberculosis: a cross-cultural adaptation and validation of a scale in Indonesia'. BMC Psychology, Vol 11, Issue 1, e112.

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Abstract

Introduction:
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a highly stigmatised disease that can cause or exacerbate mental health disorders. Despite increased awareness of the importance of reducing TB stigma, validated tools to measure TB stigma remain scarce. This study aimed to culturally adapt and validate the Van Rie TB Stigma Scale in Indonesia, a country with the second largest TB incidence worldwide.

Methods:
We validated the scale in three phases: translation, cultural adaptation, and psychometric evaluation. We invited diverse experts to an interdisciplinary panel for the cross-cultural adaptation, then performed a psychometric evaluation of the scale: exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, reliability analysis, and correlation analysis with Patient Health Questionnaire 9 [PHQ-9].

Results:
We culturally adapted the original scale's language and content during the translation and cultural adaptation phases. After psychometric evaluation with 401 participants in seven provinces of Indonesia, we removed two items. The new scale had two forms: (A) patient and (B) community perspective forms. Both forms had good internal consistency, with respective Cronbach's alpha values of 0.738 and 0.807. We identified three loading factors in Form A (disclosure, isolation, and guilty) and two loading factors in Form B (isolation and distancing). The scale showed correlation with PHQ-9 (Form A, rs = 0.347, p < 0.001; Form B, rs = 0).

Conclusions: The culturally adapted Indonesian version of Van Rie's TB Stigma Scale is comprehensive, reliable, internally consistent, and valid. The scale is now ready for applied scale-up in research and practice to measure TB-stigma and evaluate the impact of TB-stigma reduction interventions in Indonesia.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	WF Respiratory System > Tuberculosis > WF 200 Tuberculosis (General)
Faculty: Department:	Clinical Sciences & International Health > Clinical Sciences Department
Digital Object Identifer (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01161-y
SWORD Depositor:	JISC Pubrouter
Depositing User:	JISC Pubrouter
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2023 08:52
Last Modified:	17 Apr 2023 08:52
URI:	https://archive.lstmed.ac.uk/id/eprint/22322

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