Table 2. Item loadings from confirmatory factor analysis in Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC).
| Item No. and Text | Standardized Coefficient |
|---|---|
| Factor 1: Attitudes toward people with MHP | |
| 1: I am more comfortable helping a person who has a physical illness than I am helping a person who has a mental illness. | 0.347 |
| 12: Despite my professional beliefs, I have negative reactions towards people who have mental illness. | 0.407 |
| 13: There is little I can do to help people with mental illness. | 0.472 |
| 14: More than half of people with mental illness don’t try hard enough to get better. | 0.523 |
| 18: Health care providers do not need to be advocates for people with mental illness. | 0.306 |
| 20: I struggle to feel compassion for a person with mental illness. | 0.321 |
| Factor 2: Attitudes toward Disclosure of MHP | |
| 4: If I were under treatment for a mental illness, I would not disclose this to any of my colleagues. | 0.387 |
| 6: I would see myself as weak if I had a mental illness and could not fix it for myself. | 0.565 |
| 7: I would be reluctant to seek help if I had a mental illness. | 0.371 |
| 10r: If I had a mental illness, I would tell my friends. | 0.424 |
| Factor 3: Social Distance from those with MHP | |
| 3r: If a colleague with whom I work told me they had a managed mental illness, I would be as willing to work with him/her. | 0.385 |
| 8r: Employers should hire a person with a managed mental illness if he/she is the best person for the job. | 0.502 |
| 9r: I would still go to a physician if I knew that the physician had been treated for a mental illness. | 0.649 |
| 17: I would not want a person with a mental illness, even if it were appropriately managed, to work with children. | 0.467 |
| 19r: I would not mind if a person with a mental illness lived next door to me. | 0.411 |
| Subscale Covariances | |
| Subscale 1—Subscale 2 | 0.715 |
| Subscale 1—Subscale 3 | 0.565 |
| Subscale 2—Subscale 3 | 0.453 |
MHP = mental health problems. Item numbers refer to original, 20-item OMS-HC scale. “r” refers to items that have been reverse coded for scoring. Text presented here is original, English text (participants answered the items in Spanish from the cross-culturally adapted version of the scale).