Table 3.

Comparison of rural and urban samples on relations between additional stigma indicators and composite stigma score

Stigma questions	Rural	Urban	Comparison
Would you be content if he was to work together with you in your workplace?	0.04	−0.54*	*
(If you do not have a job, answer as if you did.)
If your local hospital opens a clinic for people like him in your neighborhood would you hope the local council would object?	−0.16	0.14
Is the cause of this sort of illness something passing down in the family?	0.14	0.37*
Is his illness something he might have brought on himself?	0.16	0.23*
Should the doctors only let him leave hospital on condition he goes to see them regularly?	−0.06	0.24*
Do you think a sympathetic family and friends can stop him becoming ill again?	−0.14	−0.24*
Will a sympathetic family be more help to him than regularly taking medicine?	−0.30*	−0.23*
If he becomes ill again do you think it would be better to call the police first rather than the doctor?	0.02	0.27*
Might he have any special powers (to heal, to predict future events, to cause illness)?	−0.33*	0.27*	*
Could this illness be caused by some spirits or an enemy harming him?	0.20*	0.26*

^*A significant difference (P < 0.05) exists between rural and urban correlations with the composite stigma score