Table 3.

Perceived community stigma scale and sub-scales

Scale or sub-scale	Number of items	Number of women with complete data	Mean	Median	Range (maximum possible score of 3)	Cronbach’s alpha
Total	18	1504	0.85	0.89	0–2.39	0.85
Negative attitudes	7	1515	0.79	0.86	0–2.86	0.78
Perceived discrimination	7	1509	0.90	1.00	0–3.00	0.75
Equity	4	1523	0.89	1.00	0–3.00	0.70

Sub-scales were constructed as in Genberg et al. [23], after excluding one additional item, “People with HIV/AIDS should not have the same freedoms as everyone else”. This item was dropped from the Total and Equity scales, due to very low correlation with the other scale items in this sample