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HIV/AIDS Co-Infection
New findings from University of North Carolina in the area of HIV/AIDS co-infection described
May 20th, 2008
"To develop scales to measure tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS stigma in a developing world context. Cross-sectional study of tuberculosis patients in southern Thailand, who were asked to rate their agreement with items measuring TB and HIV/AIDS stigma," researchers in the United States report. "Developing the scales involved exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, internal consistency, construct validity, test-retest reliability and standardized summary scores. Factor analyses identified two sub-scales associated with both tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS stigma: community and patient perspectives. Goodness-of-fit was good (TLI = 94, LFI = 0.88 and RMSEA = 0.11), internal...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-05-20)
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