Table 1.
Relationships between stigmatization levels and patient’s sex.
| Stigmatization Scale | Women | Men | p | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Me | s | Me | s | ||||
| Stigmatization Scale (6-Item) Summary measure |
7.0 | 7.5 | 3.2 | 5.4 | 5 | 4.2 | 0.0147 |
| Stigmatization Scale (33-Item) Summary measure | 85.0 | 84.5 | 19.2 | 75.6 | 75.5 | 19.8 | 0.0129 |
| -Anticipation of rejection | 23.5 | 24 | 6.3 | 21.3 | 22 | 6.5 | 0.0921 |
| -Feeling of being flawed | 14.3 | 14 | 5.1 | 12.0 | 11.5 | 4.8 | 0.0095 |
| -Sensitivity to the opinions of others | 12.7 | 13 | 3.8 | 10.7 | 10.5 | 4.3 | 0.0129 |
| -Guilt and shame | 14.0 | 14 | 3.5 | 14.3 | 14 | 3.2 | 0.7720 |
| -Positive attitudes | 9.0 | 9 | 2.6 | 7.8 | 8 | 3.0 | 0.0275 |
| -Secretiveness | 11.4 | 12 | 3.5 | 9.6 | 9 | 4.3 | 0.0044 |
p—p-value for the Mann-Whitney test; —arithmetic mean; Me—median; s—standard deviation.