Table 3.

HIV/AIDS stigma scale factor structure

Item	Extracted factors					a	ad
	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	Factor 5
Domain 1: fear of transmission and disease						0.810
Item 1	0.510						0.804
Item 2	0.791						0.756
Item 3	0.782						0.771
Item 4	0.731						0.770
Item 5	0.739						0.775
Item 6	0.571						0.801
Domain 2: association with shame, blame and judgment						0.776
Item 7		0.630					0.744
Item 8		0.711					0.731
Item 9		0.750					0.731
Item 10		0.613					0.746
Item 11		0.674					0.732
Item 12		0.522					0.768
Domain 3: personal support of discriminatory actions or policies						0.709
Item 13				0.323	0.607		0.700
Item 14				0.650			0.645
Item 15				0.796			0.637
Item 16				0.577			0.671
Item 17				0.501			0.668
Item 18				0.602			0.695
Domain 4: perceived community support of discriminatory actions or policies						0.762
Item 19			0.606				0.747
Item 20			0.072	0.585			0.805
Item 21			0.753				0.698
Item 22			0.750				0.699
Item 23			0.757				0.680
Item 24			0.687				0.716
Eigenvalues	5.559	2.742	2.249	1.420	1.030
Cumulative %	23.163	34.588	43.958	49.875	54.168

Factor extraction method: principal component analysis

Rotation method: Varimax with Kaiser Normalization. Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient (a)

Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient if item were deleted (a_d)

Cumulative contribution ratio (Cumulative %)