Table 2.

Descriptive statistics, homoscedasticity, discrimination, and internal consistency of adapted HBV stigma scale

Item	Descriptive Statistics			Kolmogorov–Smirnov test		Homoscedasticity		Discrimination				Internal consistency
	Mean ± SD	Skewness	Kurtosis	Z	p	F	p	DI	t	df	p	hi	rITC	αt−i
Q1	3.05 ± 0.83	−0.49	−0.50	0.23	<0.001	8.70	0.004	0.32	10.4	95.03	<0.001	0.47	0.46	0.67
Q2	2.56 ± 0.82	0.03	−0.54	0.23	<0.001	0.60	0.440	0.38	14.9	116.71	<0.001	0.63	0.63	0.68
Q3	2.63 ± 0.95	−0.26	−0.83	0.25	<0.001	0.61	0.437	0.38	12.6	106.99	<0.001	0.71	0.50	0.67
Q4	3.36 ± 0.70	−1.11	1.58	0.28	<0.001	3.82	0.053	0.18	2.9	106.08	0.005	0.58	0.19	0.72
Q6	2.67 ± 0.85	−0.54	−0.25	0.32	<0.001	12.35	<0.001	0.20	4.2	112.56	<0.001	0.65	0.08	0.74
Q7	3.03 ± 0.75	−0.57	0.26	0.29	<0.001	6.24	0.014	0.22	7.1	105.40	<0.001	0.62	0.34	0.69
Q8	2.50 ± 0.91	−0.23	−0.79	0.27	<0.001	1.04	0.310	0.32	9.2	116.88	<0.001	0.67	0.36	0.71
Q9	3.43 ± 0.58	−0.70	1.12	0.31	<0.001	3.32	0.071	0.18	7.1	91.98	<0.001	0.44	0.42	0.69
Q10	2.72 ± 0.75	−0.76	0.48	0.36	<0.001	10.11	0.002	0.21	5.6	113.22	<0.001	0.61	0.30	0.70
Q11	3.17 ± 0.63	−0.59	1.37	0.33	<0.001	4.35	0.039	0.25	9.2	100.74	<0.001	0.54	0.58	0.67

M, mean; SD, standard deviation; df, degrees of freedom; rITC, correlation between the item and the scale; h_i, communality; α_t−i, Cronbach’s alpha coefficient after removing the item (significance α ≥ 0.70).