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. 2018 Sep 25;12(9):e0006808. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0006808

Table 1. Affective component items (10 items).

S. No Selected Items Median IQR
2 Nursing of leprosy patients is a dirty job 2 2
4 People with leprosy should live apart from other people 2 1
5 There is a sense of revulsion when seeing a leprosy patient with ulcers 3 1
8 Leprosy patients with ulcers and deformities must be isolated 3 2
10 I am concerned with getting infection from patients with leprosy when I treat them 4 2
17 Dressing for a leprosy patient is not disgusting most of the times 8 2
18 Working in a leprosy hospital is one of the best ways of exhibiting humanitarian nature 8 2
19 If someone in my family has leprosy I would not mind talking about it to my friends 8 2
20 I get a sense of satisfaction when I treat patients with leprosy 9 1
21 I would be supportive of a person who has leprosy 9 1

1 = extremely unfavorable and 11 = extremely favorable