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. 2017 May 2;27(5):433–462. doi: 10.1017/S2045796017000178

Table 2.

Methodological quality of included studies and the quality of each measurement property

Measurement tools Internal consistency Reliability Content validity Structural validity Hypothesis testing (construct validity) Cross-cultural validity Criterion validity Responsiveness
  • 1.

    Self-reported prejudiced attitudes (SRPA) (Andersson et al. 2010)

G; +; M(++) F; ?; U(x)
  • 2.

    Personal attributes (PR) (Angermeyer, Matschinger, 2003)

F; +; L(+) F; ?; U (x)
  • 3.

    Labelling (Angermeyer & Matschinger, 2003)

P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 4.

    Peer Mental Health Stigmatization scale (PMHSS) (McKeague et al. 2015)

G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−) P; −; U(x) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 5.

    ??Knowledge Test of Mental Illness (KT) (Michaels & Corrigan, 2013)

F; +/−; C(+/−) F; −; L(−) F; −; L(−)
  • 6.

    Day's Mental Illness scale (DMIS) (Day et al. 2007)

G; +; M(++) P; ?; U (x) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 7.

    ??EMIC (Chowdhury et al. 2000)

P; +; U (x) P; +; U (x)
  • 8.

    **Employer Attitudes towards Mental Illness questionnaire (EAQ) (Diksa & Rogers, 1996)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 9.

    Attitudes of Nursing Staff towards Co-Workers Returning from Psychiatric and Physical Illnesses (ANCW) (Glozier et al. 2006)

P; +; U (x) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 10.

    Depression Stigma scale (DSS)/PPSS (Griffiths et al. 2004)

P; +; U (x) F; +; L(+)
  DSS (Griffiths et al. 2008) G; +; U (x) F; −; L(−) F; +; L(+)
  • 11.

    ??Depression Stigma scale/DSS revised (Gulliver et al. 2012)

P; +; U (x) P; +; U (x)
  • 12.

    Generalized Anxiety Stigma scale (GASS) (Griffiths et al. 2011)

E; +; S(+++) G; −; M(−−) E; +; S(+++) E; +; S(+++)
  • 13.

    ??GASS revised (Gulliver et al. 2012)

P; +; U (x) P; +; U (x)
  • 14.

    Test of Knowledge About ADHD (KADD) (Hepperlen et al. 2002)

G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−)
  • 15.

    **Beliefs toward Mental Illness (BMI) (Hirai & Clum, 2000)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 16.

    Opening Minds Scale for Health Care Providers (OMS-HC) (Kassam et al. 2012)

G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−) E; +; S(+++) F; −; L(−)
  OMS-HC (Modgill et al. 2014) G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−) P; ?; U (x)
  • 17.

    ADHD Stigma Questionnaire (ASQ) (Kellison et al. 2010)

G; +; M(++) F; +/−; C(+/−) F; ?; U(x) F; +; U(x)
  ASQ (Bell et al. 2011) G; +; M(++) F; ?; U(x) F; ?; U(x)
  • 18.

    ADHD stigma (Fuermaier et al. 2012)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; ?; U(x)
  • 19.

    Stigma scale/SS Chinese version (Ho et al. 2015)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; −; L(−)
  • 20.

    Self-Esteem and Stigma Questionnaire (SE/SQ) (Hayward et al. 2002)

F; +; L(+) F; −; L(−) F; ?; U (x) F; −; L(−)
  • 21.

    Devaluation-Discrimination tool (DD) (Link, 1987)

P; +; U(x) F; +; C(+/−)
  Perceived DD (Bjorkman et al. 2007) P; +; U(x) F; ?; C(+/−)
  Perceived DD (depression) (Interian et al. 2010) G; −; U(x) F; +; L(+) F; −; C(+/−)
  • 22.

    Depression is a Matter of Will (Aromaa et al. 2010)

G; −; M(−−) F; −; L(−) F; +; L(+)
  • 23.

    Public stigma/PDD (Moses, 2009)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 24.

    Perceived dangerousness (PD) (Link et al. 1987)

P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 25.

    PD/Link Stigma scale (Bagley & King, 2005)

P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 26.

    ??Dangerousness scale (Penn et al. 1994)

P; +; U(x) F; −; L(−)
  • 27.

    ??Social distance (SD) (Link et al. 1989)

P; +; U(x) F; +; C(+/−)
  SD (Penn et al. 1994) P; +; U(x) F; −; C(+/−)
  • 28.

    Social distance revised (Interian et al. 2010)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; −; L(−)
  • 29.

    Reported and Intended Behaviour scale (RIBS) (Evans-Lacko et al. 2013)

P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  RIBS (Evans-Lacko et al. 2012) P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  RIBS (Evans-Lacko et al. 2011) P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+) G; +; M(++)
  RIBS (Friedrich et al. 2013) P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  RIBS Japanese version (Yamaguchi et al. 2014) G; +; U(x) P; +; L(+) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 30.

    ??Social Contact scale (SD version) (Jackson & Heatherington, 2006)

G; +/−; C(+/−) F; ?; U(x)
  • 31.

    Social Supports Acceptance scale (SSAS) (Mansouri & Dowell, 1989)

P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 32.

    **Attitudes to Mental Illness Questionnaire (AMID) (Luty et al. 2006)

F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 33.

    **Attitudes to Severe Mental Illness (ASMI) (Madianos et al. 2012)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 34.

    Attitudes Toward Social Competence and Integration of People with Mental Illness (ASCI) (Minnebo & Acker, 2004)

G; +; M(++) P; ?; U(x)
  • 35.

    ??Client Attitude Questionnaire (CAQ) (Morrison & Becker, 1975)

P; +; U(x)
  • 36.

    Beliefs and attitudes toward people diagnosed with psychosis (BAP) (Serra et al. 2013)

G; +; M(++) F; ?; U(x)
  • 37.

    **Devaluation of consumers family scale (DCFS) (Struening et al. 2001)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  Stigma-Devaluation scale (Dalky, 2012) E; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) E; ?; L(+) P; N/A; U(x)
  • 38.

    **Adolescent Attitudes toward Serious Mental Illness (ATSMI = AV) (Watson et al. 2005)

G; +; M(++)
  • 39.

    Attitudes towards Acute Mental Health Care (ATAMHS) (Baker et al. 2005)

F; +; L(+) F; −; L(−)
  • 40.

    Attitudes towards Psychiatry 30 (ATP 30) (Burra et al. 1982)

F; ?; U (x) F; +/−; C(+/−) P; ?; U (x) F; −; L(−) F; +; L(+)
  • 41.

    Latino Scale for Antidepressant Stigma (LSAS) (Interian et al. 2010)

G; −; M(−−) F; +; L(+) F; −; L(−)
  • 42.

    Stigma Concerns about Mental Health Care (SCMHC) (Interian et al. 2010)

G; +/−; C(+/−) F; +; L(+) F; −; L(−)
  • 43.

    **Stigma Scale for Receiving Psychological Help (SSRPH) (Komiya et al. 2000)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 44.

    **Psychiatric Skepticism scale (PSS) (Swami & Furnham, 2011)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 45.

    Perceptions of Stigmatisation by Others for Seeking Help (PSOSH) (Vogel et al. 2009)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) P; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 46.

    ??British Omnibus National Survey (ONS) (Kobau et al. 2010)

G; −; M(−−) F; −; L(−) F; −; L(−)
  • 47.

    ??Changing mind (Svensson et al. 2011)

P; −; U(x) F; −; L(−)
  • 48.

    Mental Illness: Clinician's Attitudes (MICA) (Kassam et al. 2010)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) G; +; L(+) F; +; L(+) F; +/−; C(+/−) P; ?; U (x)
  MICA version 4 (Gabbidon et al. 2013a, b) G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+) F; −; C(+/−)
  • 49.

    Libertarian Mental Health Ideology scale (LMHIS) (Nevid & Morrison, 1980)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−) F; +; L(+)
  • 50.

    ??Depression Attitude Questionnaire (DAQ) (Botega et al. 1992)

F; −; L(−)
  DAQ (Haddad et al. 2007) F; −; L(−) F; −; L(−)
  • 51.

    ??DAQ revised (Scheerder et al. 2009)

F; +/−; C(+/−) F; −; L(−)
  • 52.

    R-DAQ (Haddad et al. 2015)

G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−) G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−)
  • 53.

    Opinions about Mental Illness (Cohen & Struening, 1962)

F; +; L(+) F; ?; U (x)
  OMI (Madianos et al. 1987) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  OMI (Struening & Cohen, 1963) G; +/−; C(+/−) F ?; L(+)
  • 54.

    ??OMI Chinese (Ng & Chan, 2000)

P; +; U (x) F; ?; U (x)
  • 55.

    Community Attitudes towards Mental Illness (CAMI) (Taylor & Dear, 1981)

G; +/−; C(+/−) P; ?; U(x) F; ?; C(+/−) F; +; L(+)
  CAMI (Granello et al. 1999) P; +/−; C(+/−) P; +/−; L(+)
  CAMI (Granello & Pauley, 2000) P; +/−; C(+/−) P; +; L(+)
  CAMI (Hinkelmean & Granello, 2003) G; +/−; C(+/−) F; +; L(+)
  CAMI (Morris et al. 2011) F; ?; C(+/−)
  CAMI Chinese (Sevigny et al. 1999) F: −; C(+/−) F: +; L(+)
  CAMI (Wolff et al. 1996) F: −; C(+/−) F; +; L(+)
  • 56.

    **CAMI revised (Brockington et al. 1993)

F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 57.

    Mental Health Attitude Survey for Police (MHASP) (Clayfield et al. 2011)

G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−) P; +; U(x)
  • 58.

    CAMI Swedish (Högberg et al. 2008)

G; +; M(++) F; ?; U(x) F; N/A; U(x)
  • 59.

    ??CAMI/FABI (20 item) (Svensson et al. 2011)

P +; U(x) F; −; L(−)
  • 60.

    Relatives' opinions toward Schizophrenia (ROS) (Magliano et al. 1999)

G; −; M(−−) F; +/−; C(+/−) F; +; L(+) P; −; U(x)
  • 61.

    R-AQ (Pinto et al. 2012)

G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−)
  • 62.

    Attitudes towards Depression and Its Treatment (ATDT) (Gabriel & Violato, 2010)

G; +; M(++) P; ?; U (x) F; +; L(+)
  • 63.

    ??ATDT revised (Isaac et al. 2012)

G; −; M(−−) F; ?; U (x)
  • 64.

    ??General Attitude Questionnaire (GAQ) (Lam et al. 2005)

P; +; U(x) F; +/−; C(+/−)
  • 65.

    Endorsed and Anticipated Stigma Inventory (EASI) (Vogt et al. 2014)

F; ?; U(x) P; ?; U(x) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 66.

    emotional reactions (ER) (Angermeyer & Matschinger, 2003)

F; +; L(+) F; ?; U (x)
  • 67.

    ??Affective Reaction scale (Penn et al. 1994)

P; +; U(x) F; −; L(−)
  • 68.

    Attribution questionnaire (AQ)-27 (Corrigan et al. 2002)

F; ?; C(+/−) F; ?; C(+/−)
  AQ (Brown, 2008) G; +/−; C(+/−) F; +; L(+) F; +; C(+/−) F; +/−; C(+/−)
  AQ (Corrigan et al. 2003) P; +; C(+/−) F; +; C(+/−)
  AQ (Corrigan et al. 2004) F; +/−; L(+)
  AQ-27-Italian (Luca Pingani et al. 2012) G; +; C(+/−) F; +; L(+) F; ?; C(+/−) F; +; C(+/−) F; N/A; U (x)
  • 69.

    Consumer Experiences of Stigma Questionnaire (CESQ) -7 items (Bagley & King, 2005)

P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 70.

    CESQ – 9 items (Świtaj et al. 2013)

G; +; M(++) F; ?; U (x) F; +; L(+) F; N/A; U (x)
  • 71.

    ??Rejection experience (RE) – Swedish (Bjorkman et al. 2007)

P; +; U(x) F; ?; U(x)
  • 72.

    Personal rejection scale/RE (Moses, 2009)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; ?; U (x) F; +; L(+)
  • 73.

    ??Discrimination and Stigma scale (DISC) (Brohan et al. 2013)

P; +; U(x) F; +/−; C(+/−) F; −; L(−)
  • 74.

    **DISC revised (Thornicroft et al. 2009)

E; +; S(+++)
  • 75.

    Questionnaire on Anticipated Discrimination (QUAD) (Gabbidon et al. 2013a, b)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; −; L(−) F; −; L(−)
  • 76.

    15 item Stigma Questionnaire (SQ) (Gibbons et al. 2012)

P; +; U (x) F; +; L(+) G; ?; U (x) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 77.

    Harvey stigma scale (Harvey SS) (Harvey, 2001)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; ?; U (x) F; +; L(+)
  • 78.

    Harvey SS revised (Bagley & King, 2005)

P; +; U (x) F; +; L(+)
  • 79.

    Link's Rejection experiences (Link RE) (Link et al. 1997)

G; +; M(++) F; ?; U(x)
  • 80.

    Stigmatizing experiences scale (SES) (Stuart et al. 2005)

P; +; U(x) G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+)
  • 81.

    Self-stigma of depression scale (SSDS) (Barney et al. 2010)

G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 82.

    Self-stigma of mental illness (SSMI) (Corrigan et al. 2006)

P; +/−; U (x) F; +/−; C(+/−) F; +; L(+)
  • 83.

    SSMI short form (Corrigan et al. 2006, Corrigan et al. 2012)

P; +; U (x) F; +; L(+)
  • 84.

    Depression self-stigma scale (DSSS) (Kanter et al. 2008)

G; +; M(++) F; ?; U (x) F; +; L(+)
  • 85.

    The Stigma Inventory for Mental Illness (SIMI) (Karidi et al. 2014)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) P; ?; U (x) F; ?; U (x) P; −; U (x) F; −; L(−)
  • 86.

    Link's Secrecy (Link et al. 1989)

G; +; M(++) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 87.

    Link's Secrecy (Link et al. 1991)

G; +; M(++) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 88.

    Link's Withdrawal (Link et al. 1989)

G; −; M(−−) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 89.

    Link's Withdrawal (Link et al. 1991)

G; −; M(−−) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 90.

    Affiliate self-stigma (ASS) (Mak & Cheung, 2008)

G; +; M(++) F; −; L(−) F; +; L(+)
  • 91.

    Self-stigma scale (SSS) (Mak & Cheung, 2010)

G; +; M(++) E; +; S(+++) F; +; C(+/−) F; +; C(+/−)
  Self-stigma scale-short (SSSS) (Wu et al. 2015) G; +; M(++) F; ?; C(+/−) F; −; C(+/−)
  • 92.

    Child stigma scale (CSS)/self-stigma (Moses, 2009)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 93.

    Secrecy scale (SES) (Moses, 2009)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 94.

    Internalised stigma of mental illness (ISMI) (Ritsher et al. 2003)

G; +; M(++) P; +; C(+/−) F; ?; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  ISMI (Brohan et al. 2011) P; +; M(++) F; +; L(+)
  ISMI (Ritsher & Phelan, 2004) F; +; L(+)
  ISMI Chinese (Chang et al. 2014) G; +; M(++) F; +; C(+/−) F; ?; L(+) F; +/−; L(+)
  ISMI Arabic (Kira et al. 2015) G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; −; L(+) F; −; L(−)
ISMI (Lien et al. 2014) G; +; M(++) F; +/−; C(+/−) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
ISMI (Sibitz et al. 2011a, b) G; +; L(+)
ISMI (Sibitz et al. 2011a, b) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
ISMI (Sorsdahl et al. 2012) F; +; L(+)
  • 95.

    **ISMI revised (Assefa et al. 2012)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 96.

    ISMI short (Boyd & Otilingam, 2014)

P; +; U(x) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)
  • 97.

    ISMI (Parent) (Zisman-Ilani et al. 2013)

G; +; M(++) P; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+)
  • 98.

    Self-Stigma of Seeking Psychological Help (SSOSH) (Vogel et al. 2006)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+) P; ?; U(x) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+) F; −; L(−)
  • 99.

    **Personal stigma scale (PESS) (Schneider et al. 2011)

G; +; M(++) F; +; L(+)
  • 100.

    ??Stigma of depression scale (SDS) (Vega et al. 2010)

G; −; M(−−) F; ?; U(x)
  • 101.

    Stigma scale (SS) (King et al. 2007)

G; +; M(++) F; +/−; C(+/−) F; +; L(+) F; +; L(+)

Study quality: E = Excellent, G = Good, F = Fair, P = Poor; Quality of each measurement property: positive rating (+), negative rating (−), indeterminate rating (?), conflicting rating (+/−); Overall level of evidence: Strong (S) (+++ or −−−), Moderate (M) (++ or −−), Limited (L) (+ or −), Conflicting (C) (+/−), or unknown (U) (x); N/A = Not applicable.

**, 12 tools of which all their measurement properties met the criteria of Limited (+ or −) (minimum acceptable) evidence or above; ??, 20 tools of which no measurement properties met the criteria of minimum acceptable evidence (limited level of evidence) or above.