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Brief, context-sensitive instruments for health professions education are lacking. This study aimed to develop the German-language Symbolic Ableism Scale (SAS-G) and obtain initial exploratory psychometric evidence among medical and dental students.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      A three-phase instrument-development study was conducted between 2022 and 2024. From the outset, people with disabilities participated directly as experts by experience in construct interpretation, item generation, and content review alongside disability-studies and clinical experts. In Phase 1, the original Symbolic Ableism Scale underwent forward-backward translation and was complemented by de novo items generated through this participatory process. Qualitative content analysis and content-validity ratios informed item refinement. 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Internal consistency and hypothesis-generating regressions were examined.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Ten items were retained in two factors: Denial of Rights and Structural Barriers (6 items; Cronbach\u2019s alpha = 0.81; McDonald\u2019s omega = 0.83) and Interpersonal Comfort (4 items; alpha = 0.70; omega = 0.74). The unrotated maximum-likelihood extraction accounted for 44.3% of total item variance, and the ordinal-data sensitivity analysis reproduced all primary item-to-factor assignments. In exploratory regressions, lower Denial of Rights and Structural Barriers scores were associated with female gender, medical study, and friendship with a person with disabilities; lower Interpersonal Comfort scores were associated with medical study and such friendship.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The SAS-G is a brief, participatively developed measure of two complementary dimensions of symbolic ableism in health professions education. Findings provide initial exploratory support for its structure and internal consistency in a single-site student sample; independent multisite confirmation and evidence of temporal stability, responsiveness, and measurement invariance are required before the scale is used to evaluate interventions or compare groups or countries.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s12909-026-10636-6","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,19]],"date-time":"2026-10-19T12:56:11Z","timestamp":1792414571000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Symbolic ableism in health professions education: development and initial psychometric evaluation of the German symbolic ableism scale"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"26","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-3340-8857","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Anna-Lena","family":"Hillebrecht","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Denise","family":"Hausdorf","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Rieka von der","family":"Warth","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Haang","family":"Jeung-Maarse","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"G\u00f6tz","family":"Fabry","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Philipp","family":"Linde","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marc","family":"Auerbacher","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Benedikt C.","family":"Spies","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Daniel R.","family":"Reissmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,19]]},"reference":[{"key":"10636_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","unstructured":"Campbell FK. 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