Table 1.

The final 9-item HIV/AIDS stigma scale ordered from least to most difficult item

Item Nr.	Mean scorea	Item	Item Hb	Violationc	Critd
1	0.86	People with HIV should NOT be bus drivers.	0.61	0	0
2	1.05	People with HIV should NOT be religious leaders.	0.53	1	39
3	1.06	People with HIV should NOT be police officers.	0.56	2	46
4	1.15	If you come to know that your friend is HIV positive, would you continue your friendship with him/her?	0.57	1	23
5	1.27	If you come to know that your colleague is HIV positive, would you continue working with him/her?	0.56	0	0
6	1.80	Would you allow your HIV positive friend to use your bathroom?	0.55	1	60
7	1.89	Would you discourage your sibling from becoming friends with an HIV/AIDS person?	0.52	1	62
8	2.66	Would you send your child to a school where one of its teachers is HIV positive?	0.55	0	0
9	4.13	A family has a right to know if a member is infected with HIV and this is more important than a family member’s right to privacy.	0.43	0	0

Note.- Loevinger’s scale coefficient H computed on the transposed Mokken scale H^T = 0.53; H = 0.54; reliability α = 0.89

^aMean score ranges from 0 to 6

^bLoevinger’s scalability coefficient

^cThe summary of the number of manifest monotonicity violation(s). Some violations are too small to be relevant [17]

^dCrit[ical] value above 80 indicates poor items that violate the assumptions of Mokken scale