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Measuring Hiv Stigma At The Family Level: Psychometric Assessment Of The Chinese Courtesy Stigma Scales (Ccsss), Hongjie Liu, Yongfang Xu, Yehuan Sun, Levent Dumenci
Measuring Hiv Stigma At The Family Level: Psychometric Assessment Of The Chinese Courtesy Stigma Scales (Ccsss), Hongjie Liu, Yongfang Xu, Yehuan Sun, Levent Dumenci
Social and Behavioral Health Publications
Courtesy stigma is the stigmatization a person perceives or experiences due to their association with a stigmatized individual or group. Most HIV-related stigma scales have been developed for people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHAs), but not for their HIV-uninfected family members. To date, few measurement scales have been designed to measure the degree of stigma among both PLWHAs and their HIV-uninfected family members at the family level. We developed a set of courtesy stigma scales and estimated their reliability and validity from 256 PLWHAs and 256 of their HIV-uninfected family members. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were performed in two independent …
Healthcare Utilization Among Hispanic Immigrants With Diabetes: Investigating The Effect Of Us Documentation Status, Elizabeth K. Do, Robin K. Matsuyama
Healthcare Utilization Among Hispanic Immigrants With Diabetes: Investigating The Effect Of Us Documentation Status, Elizabeth K. Do, Robin K. Matsuyama
Social and Behavioral Health Publications
Previous studies have not examined whether documentation status has an effect on healthcare utilization among US Hispanic immigrants with diabetes. A secondary analysis was conducted using data from the Pew Hispanic Center and Robert Johnson Wood Foundation’s 2007 Hispanic Healthcare Survey. Hispanic immigrants diagnosed with diabetes were included in analyses. The association between documentation status and healthcare utilization was assessed using logistic regressions. Of N = 577 Hispanic immigrants with diabetes, 80 % were documented immigrants and 81 % reported having visited a healthcare provider in the last 6 months. Adjusting for confounders, those who were undocumented faced higher odds …