{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,3,19]],"date-time":"2026-03-19T05:43:43Z","timestamp":1773899023987,"version":"3.50.1"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","issue":"3","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["int j tuberc lung dis"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,1]]},"abstract":"<sec><title>BACKGROUND<\/title>Stigma is a barrier to care for people affected by TB and HIV in Uganda, where these conditions remain endemic. While scales have been adapted and validated to measure stigma among TB-affected households in Uganda, there is a need\n for scales that measure the experiences of persons with TB (PWTB).<\/sec><sec><title>METHODS<\/title>We adapted the Van Rie 12-item individual perspectives TB scale and 10-item individual perspectives HIV scale for use in Uganda through cross-cultural discussions\n with a multidisciplinary research team and four cognitive interviews with community health workers and PWTB. We then conducted a cross-sectional study administering each scale to 125 PWTB. We performed exploratory factor analysis, evaluated internal validity, and assessed convergent validity\n with perceived social support.<\/sec><sec><title>RESULTS<\/title>Exploratory factor analysis yielded a one-factor solution for both scales, with marginal model fit (standardised root mean square residual = 0.09 for TB, = 0.07 for HIV). There was evidence of convergent\n validity through a positive correlation of the TB (r<\/jats:italic> = 0.22, p<\/jats:italic> = 0.01) and HIV stigma (r<\/jats:italic> = 0.22, p<\/jats:italic> = 0.01) scales with perceived social support. Both scales had good internal validity (Cronbach\u2019s \u03b1 = 0.86 for TB, = 0.87 for HIV).<\/sec><sec><title>CONCLUSION<\/title>Adapted\n scales to measure perceived HIV and TB stigma among PWTB in Uganda demonstrated promising psychometric properties by removing one and two items, respectively.<\/sec><\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5588\/ijtld.24.0497","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,7]],"date-time":"2025-03-07T12:33:45Z","timestamp":1741350825000},"page":"127-134","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Adaptation and validation of perceived HIV and TB stigma scales among persons with TB"],"prefix":"10.5588","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"M.N.","family":"Ponticiello","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA;, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA;, Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"L.M.","family":"Nanziri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"R.","family":"Hennein","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, USA;, Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA;, Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"E.","family":"Ochom","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"A.J.","family":"Gupta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA;, Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore,\n MD, USA;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"P.","family":"Turimumahoro","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"M.A.","family":"White","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"M.","family":"Armstrong-Hough","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, CT;, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, New York University\n School of Global Public Health, New York, NY, USA;, Department of Epidemiology, New York University School of Global Public Health, New York, NY, USA;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"A.","family":"Katamba","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"J.L.","family":"Davis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, USA;, Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda;, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale\n University, New Haven, CT;, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine Section, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA;, Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA."}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"3554","container-title":["The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/iuatld\/ijtld\/2025\/00000029\/00000003\/art00005","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,7]],"date-time":"2025-03-07T12:34:14Z","timestamp":1741350854000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/www.ingentaconnect.com\/content\/10.5588\/ijtld.24.0497"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,1]]},"references-count":0,"journal-issue":{"issue":"3","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,1]]}},"alternative-id":["1027-3719(20250301)29:3L.127;1-"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5588\/ijtld.24.0497","relation":{},"ISSN":["1027-3719"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1027-3719","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,1]]}}}