. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 May 6.

Published in final edited form as: J Int Assoc Provid AIDS Care. 2011 Apr 26;12(1):44–49. doi: 10.1177/1545109711401410

Table 1.

Questionnaire Components for Stigma Measure Administered to Women Attending Government-Supported HIV Clinic, Kolkata, India, 2008.

Construct	Item^a
Stigma	In your opinion, if a person has HIV/AIDS but is not sick, should he/she be allowed to continue with his or her occupation?^b
	I feel guilty because I have HIV.
	Telling someone I have HIV is risky.
	I work hard to keep my HIV a secret.
	I feel set apart, isolated from the rest of the world.

Possible responses included ‘Yes,’ ‘No,’ ‘Don’t know,’ and ‘Refused.’

These scale items were not included in the final scale.